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BigmanPigman

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17. Most people do have sympathy but not empathy since they never

Mon Oct 2, 2017, 08:00 PM

Oct 2017

personally experienced it themselves first hand. When that happens, everything changes. For instance, when Reagan was shot, Brady was too and that is when he became a crusader for gun control. The same applies to the economy (when people suffer financially they suddenly become concerned about the 1%, when someone has a child who comes out of the closet they become pro-gay marriage, when someone's mother can't afford a nursing home they become pro Universal Healthcare, when their house is ruined by an earthquake in OK they become "anti-fracking", when a person's home in a low lying area is flooded they become "stop Climate Change", etc.). It is normal in today's self obsessed society.

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I Had To View 30 Bodies In Vietnam To ID Our Own. Country Needs To See The Reality Of What Happened [View all] TheMastersNemesis Oct 2017 OP

I agree with you. LisaM Oct 2017 #1

yes, my nephew served in the Gulf War lapfog_1 Oct 2017 #2

The gory pictures are not hard to find. Ms. Toad Oct 2017 #3

That picture, which I saw last night, early this morning, PoindexterOglethorpe Oct 2017 #7

All I have seen are people sitting and bodies lying on the ground like extras in a movie. Kablooie Oct 2017 #30

If all someone has sharp_stick Oct 2017 #4

Most people do have sympathy but not empathy since they never BigmanPigman Oct 2017 #17

Same thing as how we sanitize our wars in far away places. We just sinkingfeeling Oct 2017 #5

Thank you, TMN. Such an important issue. democrank Oct 2017 #6

I Clearly Remember Waling Into That Tent W/30 Dead Soldiers In It. We Had Lost 3 KIA. TheMastersNemesis Oct 2017 #9

My heart breaks for what you and others went through. I mean that. democrank Oct 2017 #12

Fortunately I Have Never Been Troubled About What I Saw. TheMastersNemesis Oct 2017 #14

I'm another widow of a Vietnam vet ban1941 Oct 2017 #19

If the media would do a continuous count, adding the new numbers from each shooting to the totals Dustlawyer Oct 2017 #21

My hat is off to you. leanforward Oct 2017 #29

There are a lot of babylonsister Oct 2017 #8

I read that they got up and ran. dem4decades Oct 2017 #34

My ex's mom took all his photos from there (66 - 68) and burned them. raven mad Oct 2017 #10

I agree completely. I thought they should have shown the Sandy Hook victims "as found." Vinca Oct 2017 #11

There was one mother that appeared to feel that America should see her child. dem4decades Oct 2017 #33

100% agree and then some benld74 Oct 2017 #13

March members of Congress passed those bodies. Duppers Oct 2017 #15

I'm a physician and I've seen more dead bodies than I care to remember mainer Oct 2017 #16

Absolutely correct. Media sanitizes violence. gordianot Oct 2017 #22

First responders to Sandy Hook reported that many LuckyLib Oct 2017 #31

"...the Sandy Hook deniers should have been forced to see the bodies of those dead children." 3catwoman3 Oct 2017 #37

Yes, our physical bodies are merely "containers". roamer65 Oct 2017 #40

I'm with this thread. leanforward Oct 2017 #18

I am too...seeing the carnage gopiscrap Oct 2017 #36

100% agree with you. Until it is REAL to them, they cna deny that it doesn't exist. iluvtennis Oct 2017 #20

They're not just getting away with distortions,... citizen blues Oct 2017 #23

Its all sanitized, the longer its thats way the more it will go on... Historic NY Oct 2017 #24

I totally agree with you Greywing Oct 2017 #25

You're right. It's all intellectual horror and feels like watching a movie. Kablooie Oct 2017 #26

I always thought they should have put up a sign facing the NRA showing the dead children kimbutgar Oct 2017 #27

It is hard to agree with this, but I do. logosoco Oct 2017 #28

The only problem here is.... KY_EnviroGuy Oct 2017 #32

Every day around the globe children are exposed to the gore & violence of war Historic NY Oct 2017 #39

To many, this is about Turbineguy Oct 2017 #35

I have often speculated that LaPierre, for all his... 3catwoman3 Oct 2017 #38

But they're getting all the tearful testimony they can find misanthrope Oct 2017 #41