Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25266931-20170217011737/@comment-28345522-20170226223713

KNN005 wrote: So if it's natural not to care about a place that you have no connection to, then what am I? Unnatural? I was raised in the US by parents who cared about African culture. But I still care about any and everyone that suffers. Just because Africa has it's own heroes doesn't mean they didn't need more help. Obviously if whole towns are getting killed they are short-handed. She didn't even check if there was anything she could do. It just boggles my mind to see such desolation and then be like "Welp, not my problem." The only people I don't care about are the people who are really selfish or really weak-minded.

I've seen people care more about fictional characters in Twilight and 50 Shades of Grey than people getting bombed and slaughtered on the news. How does that even happen? People just don't care about each other. That's why people get cynical and say "everyone's on their own". It's not unnatural because it's part of the point I was making earlier, being raised to have pride in 'X' background. It's not the strongest of connections sometimes, but it's stil a connection which counts. I think it's wrong to call others terrible people for not caring about a people/culture that they have no connection to whatsoever.

This all boils down to what the average person invests themself in. It's easy to invest in anything when you learn their backstory, much harder to do more than feel sorry for random victims on the morning news. Not everyone can be a bleeding heart.