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# According to a new study, mass killings reported as statistics fail to tickle human emotions while a person’s accidental death reported on the evening news can bring viewers to tears.
# The knowledge of atrocities such as killings in Darfur fails to motivate most to take action despite the Internet and other modern communications.
# People typically react very strongly to one death but their emotions fade as the number of victims increase.
# Human insensitivity to large-scale human suffering has been observed in the past century with genocides in Armenia, the Ukraine, Nazi Germany and Rwanda, among others.
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Vikas Shekhawat
instablogs.com
Jan 14 2008
Churu, Rajasthan,
India
Death – natural or otherwise – accompanies the ‘loss’ factor only and only if one loses someone close, irrespective of the fact that it’s a mass killing or not. It’s not that the more we’re witnessing death, the more we’re becoming insensitive to it, simply because death has been our close ally since the origin of life and specially when the world has already gone through two World Wars. Also, with the demise of a generation giving way to a fresh one, the feelings or practical outlook towards death too takes a complete transformation. Rather, I’d say, with the world coming more closer and past generations experiencing all what we could, we’re becoming more and more sensitive and are ready to involve, share and make best efforts to not repeat but defeat ‘death’. Moreover, there are more deaths just because there are more births too.
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Yes, the mass killing surely is the matter of shock to the audience, but it’s not everlasting. However, the case is not the same with the tale of an individual, which arouses pity and fear at the same time more than genocide does. It’s a simple reason that the audience relates himself/herself with the person suffering alone not with the herds. Remember Aristotle’s theory of catharsis and purgation of the emotion! That happens only when the audience or the viewers co-relates themselves with suffer. Moreover, these incidents are the common thing now so they hardly arouse any emotion
Congrats for the fantastic design ppl… you guys really deserve applause…ok coming back to the point, i really wonder who says that the mass killin’ has lost its sheen? Are you chaps mad… this is really shocking that you feel no emotional indulgence with mass killing… I feel the same whether one or scores die… but yea, with respect to place, these things loose a bit sensation e.g. in Darfur, Iraq, DR Congo, Afghanistan… there it’s common, so ppl can say that it’s nothin’ new however, it doesn’t mean that it’s no impact on humans and in new palace it definably arouses readers’ emotion like 9/11 in US or if it happens in a comparatively peaceful nation.
Rightly said, when suicide bombings, civil wars and other conflicts are so common, who gives a damn to the increasing graves. I’d say media is also playing a major role in skewing the psyche of the common people and apparently making them more insensitive. Who’ll care about 9/11 if it becomes a daily routine, what say?
When Benazir died, there was literally a turmoil, when Gandhi’s were assassinated, the whole world was shocked – you need to be ‘SOMEONE’ if you want everyone to shed those tears – on the streets, it’s the other way round and will always be.
Come on, if we start doing this, all we’ll be doing is crying and crying nothing else. Let’s get out of the clutches of humanity and talk about inhumanity now – one rule – just help yourself, rest will follow. And I’m saying this not because we’re insensitive, but putting it more exactly, we’re over-sensitive and over-involved in things like useless celebrations and reality shows instead of saving people out there.
Absolutely not! I agree that our capacity to feel is limited, but this world is running just because there are people who really care.
Only the person whose head has been hammered knows the pain and no body else! this is true, but of course, the dangerous liaison of human psyche. In the developing scientific era, we’re becoming mechanic sans commotion and empathy. But it’s difficult to bear the same for once forget about imagining the same for second time.
Yus no doubt. With the increasing distance, compassion and desire to reach out or feel the same recedes. human psyche you know when it gets accustomed to something, it takes it lightly – be it violent incidents killing scores or anything else! the emotional bondage is attached to someone who is near and well known to you and little with those thousand miles away. For Bhutto killed in Pakistan the whole nation was in pool of tears and same is the case in India with Gandhis. However, in the western world these are nothing but a news to discuss in parties and pubs to show the knowledge of world affairs.
Leave it! useless to think about. Let them bear the pain who are destined to. Can we start moaning for every individual dying with violence or accident? Every one is destined, pre-destined indeed, to die. This is how we come and go. So, no noise please. I don’t want anyone to wail for me neither do I want cry for others. Those who died were unfortunate but why should I feel bad for that. The simple thing is that none can change the trend, do you?
Honestly, none really cares about anyone else...it was always like this...if we as a race really start bothering about those who die, then the grief will kill us! We have internal mechanisms to make us forget griefs. & of course, some folks just do not care what does not affect them...
What rubbish?? How one can ignore the mass killing, Got some brains dude sitting on other side. you must have lost love for humanity.
Ignoring mass killing is a crime itself. It opens the way for us to be killed in a similar manner.
Joseph Stalin once said; ”One death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic”. But then, he was a dictator whose brutalities belittle that of Hitler. He was responsible for the deaths of more people than the chief architect of the Jewish Holocaust.
The world is still a very sensitive place, people do love and care for each other across nations. I don’t want to give you historical instances where the collective world sympathy moved mountains of grief and misery from mass tragedy victims.
Have you seen how the world stood up and came to help the victims of the Asian tsunami that killed nearly a quarter of a million people displacing millions. The world moved unprecedentedly to help the victims. Relief and rehabilitation programs are still going on in full swing.
The ongoing Darfur tragedy is the result of a political situation. Nonetheless, the world is not ignoring it. Concerned nations are already doing their part trying to rein in the notorious Sudanese regime who identify more with the Arabs than the African blacks. Major nations like the US is not doing enough. Darfur will not continue forever, it is only taking time as of now.
The world is still a very sensitive place, people do love and care for each other across nations. I don’t want to give you historical instances where the collective world sympathy moved mountains of grief and misery from mass tragedy victims.
Have you seen how the world stood up and came to help the victims of the Asian tsunami that killed nearly a quarter of a million people displacing millions. The world moved unprecedentedly to help the victims. Relief and rehabilitation programs are still going on in full swing.
The ongoing Darfur tragedy is the result of a political situation. Nonetheless, the world is not ignoring it. Concerned nations are already doing their part trying to rein in the notorious Sudanese regime who identify more with the Arabs than the African blacks. Major nations like the US is not doing enough. Darfur will not continue forever, it is only taking time as of now.
ppl r shockd 4 sumtime ven de c lrge deths. bt it wont mk senstnl nwz 2 ne1 s a rich brat kilin ndr wid a gun. it shox mor. iraq afghn bor now.
This 'who cares' attitude of some people is what is making people more and more insensitive to the fellow human. I wish this changes.
@Ekta:
[Can you be a bit clear please. Not many can follow the SMS type comment.]
I agree with you to some extent, but then people do care about large scale human tragedies. What makes you think that we are indifferent to ongoing tragedies like Darfur or the Iraq War or Afghanistan? Do we need to sensationalize everything to sit up and take notice?
[Can you be a bit clear please. Not many can follow the SMS type comment.]
I agree with you to some extent, but then people do care about large scale human tragedies. What makes you think that we are indifferent to ongoing tragedies like Darfur or the Iraq War or Afghanistan? Do we need to sensationalize everything to sit up and take notice?
The affect attached to a dying person is also a key factor in deciding whether or not it stirs humanity. Death of Saddam generated jubilation and Bhutto generated agitation. Caring is not always targeted or not targeted at people we can relate with. As said in the above example, we can relate with neither but it still affects us. When innocent die due to natural disasters or man-made ones (which are becoming more rampant by the second) people do feel for them. From 9/11 to 7/7 there is hardly ever a case where people have not ”cared” per se but I would, to an extent, agree that such incidents are becoming rampant and one might feel disturbed about it for awhile, more often than not they get on with their lives without thinking twice. As more number of people die, it really does become a news than a tragedy.
Sad but true. Very true. Hariri dies - all shout and do something. Israel bombs Beirut and kills hundreds - no voice. Cost of life has gone down for common people.
no. world cared about cambodia and threw out pol pot and khmer rouge. the world helped getting cambodia back to its feet and it is still helping. i don believe people dont care. PEOPLE REALLY CARE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! PLEASE UNDERSTAND.
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