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Old 04-18-2007, 06:39 AM
Tanner Tanner is offline
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Exclamation Indifference

All I see here is indifference to a tragedy. The people were locked in a room and murdered, but none of you even seem to care. Where is the sympathy?

You don't have to be scared, outraged or angry in order to mourn for those involved. Acknowledge and accept the situation, then choose to react in a healthy way. But don't deny it was tragic, because it simply was.

Wake up from the indifference that subjective reality results in! Calls for better gun legislation and less glorification of violence make perfect sense. You can be proactive without being outraged. We all need to take responsibility for the world we live in. You can't just shrug these things off as reflections of your internal conflicts.

Steve: You are obviously right that change needs to happen within first, but I feel like you just wrote-off anyone trying to take the next proactive step by saying they were acting in a cycle of outrage. Couldn't you have at least said you agree that we need better gun-control and that violence is overglorified in our culture, but worry people are more concerned with fighting an "external evil" than they are with dealing with their own inner "demons"? Don't demean people's attempts to make our world a better place.

Even if someone attains enlightenment there will still be "bad" things like this in their world! You are making a big mistake Steve. Subjective reality isn't the only way to take responsibility for your experiences, control your reactions to them and stop them from hurting you.
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