I don’t care about Gaza, Palestine, or the people there. I’m not one of those people who denies there’s a genocide — I do believe there is one. I just don’t give a fuck. I truly don’t. I don’t care if Israel bombs all of Gaza and kills kids. I don’t. I don’t give a fuck. Here are my actual thoughts: “Fuck them and fuck those kids.” I don’t give a fuck. They could drop a missile so radioactive it gives kids brain cancer, and I still wouldn’t care. I’m aware this is a hot take, and I have seen pictures of dead kids in Gaza, and I still don’t give a fuck. Here’s how I think when I see those pictures: “Fuck them.” That’s it.

But in public, on social media, etc., should I act like I care? I mean, just to make myself look good?

  • Lumidaub@feddit.org
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    8 days ago

    At least you realise that it would make you look good. That’s something.

    More importantly, that age-old question: what answer that you haven’t had before did you expect? Also, how often are you going to repost this one, I wonder?

  • cecilkorik@lemmy.caEnglish
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    8 days ago

    You sound kind of like a psychopath. I don’t mean that as an insult, but since it’s something that can significantly affect your life, maybe you should talk to a doctor or something about your feelings.

  • cerement@slrpnk.net
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    8 days ago

    “The death of human empathy is one of the earliest and most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism.”

    —Hannah Arendt

    “I told you once that I was searching for the nature of evil. I think I’ve come close to defining it: a lack of empathy. It’s the one characteristic that connects all the defendants. A genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow man. Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.”

    —Captain G.M. Gilbert, Nuremberg Diary (1947)

  • Hadriscus@jlai.lu
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    8 days ago

    I think you should just be yourself, and deal with the consequences. Are you afraid of the consequences ?

    Imho, that sounds like an underdeveloped brain -as far as empathy is concerned. I know some individuals never evolve the necessary pathways until late in adulthood- for me it happened sometime around my early 20s. I say make new friends, go into the unknown. Perhaps that’ll trigger it