We agree that the correct approach to atrocity is to treat them all in the same way and that a response to human suffering of one's own country/countries should be the same as the response to human suffering in other countries. What we disagree about is what that treatment should be. I don't feel that incapacitating emotional pain would be helpful; it would only lead to apathetic and hopeless anger. Deep empathy on a mass scale however, breeds a very different type of anger which I feel would indeed lead to the issues of atrocity and what causes them to occur being put on the top of our collective priorities and being solved.
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Date: 2005-07-15 04:23 am (UTC)We agree that the correct approach to atrocity is to treat them all in the same way and that a response to human suffering of one's own country/countries should be the same as the response to human suffering in other countries. What we disagree about is what that treatment should be. I don't feel that incapacitating emotional pain would be helpful; it would only lead to apathetic and hopeless anger. Deep empathy on a mass scale however, breeds a very different type of anger which I feel would indeed lead to the issues of atrocity and what causes them to occur being put on the top of our collective priorities and being solved.