justaoifethings

We are becoming desensitised at an alarming rate. We live in a world of famine, war, torture and cruelty, but it seems to pass over our heads. We are presented with images of starving kids on our televisions since childhood. We are told about mere skeletons of people who are dying horrific deaths since a young age. We are taught about war and famine when we were in primary school. We live in an age of mind blowing special effects and films and video games. We grow up with violent cartoons and toys modelled from weapons. How much of this does it take for a human to lose their sense of humanity? How much more do we need to forget that we're all people? We scorn Hitler for the mass murder of Jews, gypsies and the disabled. They're humans too, of course, and he deserves one of the worst names in history. But who's to say we're not as bad on an individual level? I watched as a Hungarian reporter tripped a man fleeing from a war torn country with a little girl in his arm