I don't know man, as long as the cause is for the greater good of man and our environment, then people who get strung along on an emotional level are only going to learn more by getting involved. It's getting involved that is the big step, I can't condemn anyone for that. The world needs action and if thats driven by an emotional response I'm all for it. After all, passion is born from emotion.
I think what you're talking about, and correct me if I'm wrong, is manipulation, your frustration at people who are easily manipulated. I hear you on that. The Jonestown massacre still haunts me to this day.
It's not just how people are easily manipulated, but how they don't even give it a thought about fighting for a cause other than being emotionally strung along.
Well I know people who donate money to animal rights associations, the blind association and famine relief in Africa because they saw advertisements or had an activist explain the issue to them and they felt emotionally compelled to help.
I think human compassion is nice and we need it. Having an emotional reaction to a cause is important, otherwise what are we, indifferent?
I admire people who do it for a cause but I also admire people who care. That's what I'm trying to say.
Compassion isn't the thing I'm annoyed at, which you already know. There's nothing wrong with giving some money, because it won't anyone. It's when it gets out of hand and the irrationality exceeds the compassion. For example, people acting racist and boycotting an entire ethnicity simply because of something that happened in a country without even considering why these atrocities are happening or even consider the same things happening in their own countries.
I hate emotional bandwagon activists
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I don't know man, as long as the cause is for the greater good of man and our environment, then people who get strung along on an emotional level are only going to learn more by getting involved. It's getting involved that is the big step, I can't condemn anyone for that. The world needs action and if thats driven by an emotional response I'm all for it. After all, passion is born from emotion.
I think what you're talking about, and correct me if I'm wrong, is manipulation, your frustration at people who are easily manipulated. I hear you on that. The Jonestown massacre still haunts me to this day.
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It's not just how people are easily manipulated, but how they don't even give it a thought about fighting for a cause other than being emotionally strung along.
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Well I know people who donate money to animal rights associations, the blind association and famine relief in Africa because they saw advertisements or had an activist explain the issue to them and they felt emotionally compelled to help.
I think human compassion is nice and we need it. Having an emotional reaction to a cause is important, otherwise what are we, indifferent?
I admire people who do it for a cause but I also admire people who care. That's what I'm trying to say.
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Compassion isn't the thing I'm annoyed at, which you already know. There's nothing wrong with giving some money, because it won't anyone. It's when it gets out of hand and the irrationality exceeds the compassion. For example, people acting racist and boycotting an entire ethnicity simply because of something that happened in a country without even considering why these atrocities are happening or even consider the same things happening in their own countries.
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Yeah I lost you dude.
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Basically, compassion should NEVER be an excuse for being a total idiot.