Texty

Sue me, but I think there's an appalling lack of sensitivity and respect for other people in our culture, and I think it needs to stop. I'm quite tired of the attitude that everyone should just buck up and take their licks. People are getting more and more numbed out to the suffering of others. We've become a culture of sociopaths because we no longer have the ability to empathize with the suffering of others. Granted that this incident isn't quite the same as, say, someone torturing a small animal for fun, but the same thought process underlie both actions: a fundamental disregard for the feelings of others. It's the golden rule, y'know? I don't believe in government censorship, but I do believe in people taking responsibility for the effects their words and actions have on others. We are not islands. We all have the ability to hurt other people with what we do, and we all have to take responsibility to not do that.