Reply #17: There are always "some" [View All]

I'm maintaining that genuine sociopaths are very rare in the population, and most people will have an empathic reaction to these things. Some will no doubt find some reason to turn their noses up at it. Studies by sociologists reveal that 3% of people would rather let a child drown than risk getting their own pants wet. If that number holds, then there are 9,121,791 frighteningly selfish Americans. Nine million bastards is quite a number, sure, but it still leaves two hundred and ninety-one million of us who aren't complete douchnozzles to the bone.

I'm telling you that it's a lot harder to rationalize photos and video footage, than to rationalize text and second- or third-hand reports.

As for your argument, I refer you to the OP, who's line of work has apparently rendered him jaded on a level that I pray to any conveniant deity I will never personally experience. But he's obviously moved by what's going on - or, perhaps, by what isn't going on, that being an accurate accounting of what's being done.

If people want to rationalize it, if they want to turn a blind eye to it, well, I say let's give them lots of material to work with. Let htme rationalize themselves sick, let them turn their eyes so blind they run into fucking lampposts.