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Whilst I sympathise with people's personal feelings relating to this death it makes me really sad that one privileged and utterly protected and cocooned life has this impact whilst daily we walk by malnourished people on the streets without a second thought.

And that is in the first world countries, god help those in the 3rd world countries.

>>NomDeP+(OP)
Interesting take. Do you believe humans have always had a tendency for apathy to the less fortunate or is it a modern trend to be more apathetic as one gets more self-sufficient in a society that encourages individualism?

>>NomDeP+(OP)
In Farsi we have a saying, “All the troubles are for the lame.” Bad things are correlated. It’s not fair, but true. People with the most merit are statistically the ones with the most undeserved privilege. Consider the extreme case; unborn people are the most unlucky, and yet nobody even thinks about them much.

>>kldx+Mj
Never really thought too deeply about it but I would guess there is a correlation with increasing mobility (commuting, etc) meaning more exposure to this sort of thing and less likelihood to feel responsibility or necessity to act.