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SpikyAube ago

And no I haven't noticed that about witnessing horror and not doing anything about it, that's a really interesting point. I really don't believe that there are lots of people working in TV and movies that deliberately engineer this stuff with a particular covert psychological goal in mind, such as trying to train people not to react to horrific violence, although I do think that that is a side effect and that some people may be happy with and promote that side effect.

It does feel like our society has been geared, the past 30 years or so, towards reducing empathy and care for other people, particularly people you don't know personally. It's a very stupid very short-sighted plan, because empathy is what allowed humans to evolve into the successful adaptable creatures that they are. Without it we won't survive long I don't think.