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Am I the ONLY one who cares?!
Am I the ONLY person with a vowel in their username?!
The answer is no.
I don't get this teenage attitude (and I am saying teenage in hopes that most people grow out of it, although I know from personal experience that a lot of people do not. It's sad, however I can be hopeful) of "Oh, I'm the only one who really understands everything and I get the entire earth, and nobody else does, I'm surrounded by people who are stupid and don't get it." I see this everywhere. Even I will admit that I think this way sometimes. The thing is, it's not a healthy attitude. It's bad for your ego too.
"Oh we're doing bad things to the earth" you're putting all the blame (all of it, as you are complaining about it, and not about yourself.) on other people when you too are to blame. Unless you live in the woods eating your fellow animals (there is no way to survive as a vegetarian in the wilderness. Starvers can't be choosers.) and you have no electricity, running water, or anything, I guess you ARE doing something to kill the earth. I will also take being in a cabin at -70 degrees out in the wilderness with no running water as an acceptable answer, but that person probably owns a car.
People who make petitions and the like can be equally harmful. They can be extremely riled, especially when protesting with signs. On the reintroduction of Wolves to Yellowstone national park where they were once hunted, poisioned, and the like, people shot wolves and tacked their heads to poles. Lovely, no? Well, these people didn't want the wolves to be ruining their farmland. They obviously wanted peace as much as the next guy, right? Well? Okay, so not all petitions and protesters are good ones.
Government is nice. Government takes care of your parks, roads, street lights, national parks, schools, etc. Government officials and polititions have to oversee that. And it's not fair to them to say that none of them try and none of them care- I don't think any of us would be able to handle the pressure of having so much responsibility.
The thing I want to say the most is- Having a social structure is not only a human trait. You think people are the only ones that make fun of each other in such a way? popular people, cliques, and the like? Well, you're wrong, then. Turn your attention to our good friend once again, Canis Lupis. Their social structure is quite similar to people's in that they DO have scapegoats, and members of the pack that do recieve harrassment. So if you want to keep arguing that people are so evil because of this, go ahead. but keep this little bit in mind.
(I understand that it might seem odd that I argue from a wolves point of view, obviously a strange way to present my oppinion- however, logically, I have read a few things on the subject. I'm not the same as those girls who go starry-eyed over doggies and whatnot. My point is the same as people who say that there are children starving in Africa and the like.)
I don't think people make fun of others as a "not caring" thing. Why should people have sympathy for something that has not effected them? I was unmoved when the twin towers crashed, it was just a screen on TV of a building smoking. I was unmoved by glaciers melting until I stared one in the face. People just can't feel guilty for something that they won't miss and don't understand, or else everyone would never get anything done. "Twelve people died of old age over the world in the last ten minutes! Oh, I feel so bad for the famililes I never met!" Doesn't work that way, really.
I think that some people need to learn to grow a spine and deal with it. In the real world, there are people who aren't happy with their jobs, there are people who don't deserve what they have, and there are nice people who starve. If people always want to live in a protected shell and think that everyone should care about their feelings, they don't want to grow up. If a person is mean to you, does that automatically make them bad? If a poliece man pulls you over for speeding, should he be fired for not caring about the circumstances? No. Everyone needs to do their job, feed their famililes, and they have plenty of their own problems to worry about.
I've called people stupid, ugly, fat, on a daily basis. Not to their face, however I AM thinking it. Does that make me a bad person? An uncaring person? While everyone has been called stupid, ugly, fat, everyone has called another the same things. It's a cycle.
It's better to let your frustrations out sometimes, instead of being forced to smile and deal with it. If everyone is alone in dealing with their own problems, what will ever be accomplished?
