Feel free to join me as I ride the seams of my mind. The best view to see all sides of a point. So this first time I will ask a question and why it needs an answer. The question? Why don't people care?
We come from the same source. Born weak and fragile. Unable to care for our selves. Needing others to protect our lives. Even when we are older, we reach back for advise from those who care about us. Yet, Yet, inside of some us are dark areas we use to flee the world. Away from those who love us to those we want to be. Caring gave us life, kept us alive, and reason to become more human.
I think people don't care because they have forgotten what gave them reason to be. That they took caring as someone else's responsibility to them. We have all experienced moments of lost caring from our lives. Why would we want our everyday lives be wrapped around such moments?
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Tom, Tom, Tom... How many times do we have to have do this? :)
Everyone "cares" Mr. Jones. At least, I never met anyone who didn't. It sounds to me like you want us all to care about the same things you care about.
Frankly I have a difficult time trying to imagine a world in which billions of intelligent, predatory, omnivores all wake up caring about the same things, to the same degree, everyday. Heck, even if you could create such a planet, it wouldn't take much more than a day or so before the population was reduced by 50%. And lord only knows how low it would drop before we each had enough of what we "care" about to see the carnage begin to level off.
In short I would answer your question with the assertion that we care about that which we must. For our own survival... and that of the species... we do what we are "called" to do. That which we perceive as beneficial, practical, efficient, just, holy, safe, generous, successful, careful, responsible, etc...
However you may rationalize that which you "care" for, is for the most part established by your biology, the environment, and experience.
While its true that you can learn about "other" biology, environments and experiences; once you slide past puberty your "caring" preferences are fairly well set in concrete. You can alter them a tad, but not much. At least not without risking severe trauma to the foundations.
So if you want to change what the rest of us care or don't care about, I think you should start teaching kids. Probably 10 years of age and younger. Or I suppose you could start having hundreds of thousands of your own kids... but that might require more "caring" than Mrs. Jones will sit still for. :) And in the end they still have to be taught so you can't avoid hard part. :)
The only other alternatives I can think of would involve the "severe trauma" options. But as the Bush/Osama factions are currently demonstrating, even there you are facing an uphill battle.
So my suggestion is don't worry, be happy, and do what you "care" to do. The rest of us will continue to enjoy the fruits of your many labors... and hope you don't stop... or change your mind and start traumatizing us. :)
Tom, some people care and others certainly don't. I haven't got that magic answer as to why people don't care.
Why don't people stop to help someone who's in trouble any more? The only reason I can see is that we're a litigation happy society and the helper is afraid they could get sued, even though they did nothing wrong. The Good Samaritan has gotten kicked in the teeth one too many times.
Commenting on Atom's comment about you being a teacher, your personality is charismatic enough I think you'd do well to teach in college, also. Some kids aren't quite as hardened as they would like for us to believe and can be taught, still, to care about what's right and what's wrong in life.
For the rest of it, I'd just like to see people being more polite, even if they don't care about anything else. That might lead more people to caring about what's going on around them in the world. (After talking to me and knowing first hand how rude I can be, it sounds somewhat ironic that I've said we need more politeness! I should practice what I preach!)
In the meantime, I think you're doing a wonderful job where you are. Perhaps you should get your papers to teach, if you don't already have them. Mind you, before you take that step, talk to Pat and see what she says about dealing with the stresses that come along with it. I know that her kids have been a reward to her.
~Susan
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