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In reply to the discussion: i think we should see all the pictures [View all]ReRe
(10,597 posts)17. I feel as conflicted...
... but what we have is a society, half of which seems to not have the ability to feel empathy. Even if you showed them, they probably wouldn't feel anything. It's maddening. When you run into these people, you just want to slap them awake. I do believe that world peace might be very possible if there was more empathy, if people could put themselves in someone else's shoes. Ronald Reagan didn't help, with the Me-Me-Me "I-got-mine" propaganda that so many bought into,
turning good people into vengeful, heartless, selfish monsters.
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It's not so much the graphic explicitness that works, but the depiction of horrible emotion...
cascadiance
Jul 2014
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