I feel like I’m seeing an increase of lack of empathy in people in the last few years and it’s getting more and more disturbing
I’m seeing more and more people justify acts of violence and physical harm towards other people and I feel like I’m going insane for being one of the few people in those conversations that thinks that intentionally harming people is objectively wrong. More people seem to have an issue when people say hey this is dangerous than of the act itself. There has always been a divide when it comes to morals and ethics but it feels like it’s going into extremes and it’s highly concerning to me to see it become more common for people to either play devils advocate or straight up support these acts of violence.
My job includes looking at body cam videos from police at crash sites. One of them was where someone got ran over by a car and the cops were speaking to the adverse driver who ran them over. The pedestrian was in the cross walk, halfway through it already and visible to the adverse driver. The adverse driver was trying to make a left turn so they had a flashing arrow. Pedestrian had the cross signal as well. In my state, pedestrians have the right of way and people turning left on a flashing arrow have to yield the right of way to traffic and pedestrians.
The driver was angry he got a ticket for literally running a person over. The person that got ran over has a permanent disability now and can’t walk anymore because their knee had multiple tears since that was what received the most of the impact. They had to get multiple surgeries and still can’t walk anymore. Even if that wasn’t the case, a person still ran a person over willingly. And truly did not believe they deserved to be given a ticket for it or that they did anything wrong. Their excuse? They had a “green light” and therefore the pedestrian was jaywalking. The cop was arguing with them for 20 minutes because they were that angry for getting a ticket over it. The cop said word for word “Sir, you still just can’t run people over.” And they still cared more about the amount of money that ticket cost them than the condition of the person they ran over. Not once did the driver ask the pedestrian if they were okay or apologize to them just yelled at them for being hit by their car!!
I see people celebrating the fact that there are people right now who are being torn away from their families and lives because they aren’t citizens. Who fucking cares if they were born here or not. Why is that what is focused on rather than the fact that these people are being violently abducted then separated from their families and abused, tortured, 🍇’d, sold off into trafficking, and unalived. Like I don’t understand how anyone could not think that’s extremely fucked up and horrible. I don’t think anyone deserves their lives ruined over being born as who they are.
Why can’t people just look at other people and see another human being looking back at them? Why are people so hateful to each other?? It doesn’t have to be this way, I don’t see how this mindset is benefitting anyone. I know that there are other people out there who care about other people, I just feel truly baffled by seeing how many people just simply don’t.