Re: OT: US Pres election
It's not intentional, Quantum Mechani, it's instinctual. Human brains are just not designed in such a way for us to automatically care very much about more than the people in our immediate surroundings. We're not hardwired to properly process pain and tragedy on a global scale. Any additional compassion we may feel towards people in other countries is supplimental and beyond the normal human scope of interest.
It's a bit like reading a book in a foreign language-it's obvious that a book ought to be read in the language of it's author, but it's not automatic that we do so, if it's not a language that we read. Even if we find a copy in our language, something probably gets lost in the translation.
You can probably name somewhere around 150 people (or less) who's funeral you would attend. I doubt you could name 15,000. And there's upwards of 7,000,000,000 people on the planet. It's a little hard not to generalize, when it comes to the sheer scale of humanity as a whole.
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