Empathy I think has a lot to do with it. If you can't try to imagine how another person thinks and feels, how their life has been influenced by their experiences, then it is hard to care one way or another what happens to them, whether they exist.
blind_injustice said:
You listen here lostpunk!
YOU TRY LIVING IN A COUNTRY TOWN. HAVING YOUR GIRL FRIEND RAPED BY A PACK OF ABORIGINALS!!!
There are fucking sob stories all over the world. And im sorry but your fucking bleeding heart bull shit has gotten me a tad irate.
My grasp of the situation is rather well founded, i take in aspects from both sides of the story. You are the one who is BLINDED by the actions of those who have there own minds to make up. Why do some aboriginals in country towns end up having good jobs, good familes while the VAST MAJORITY choose to take drugs, rape, kill, abuse? EVERY HUMAN BEING has there own destiny to create. People pull themselves out of the most amazingly horrid situations.
What do you surgest as an answer to the problem? Hugs and kisses?
There's no bleeding heart tirade here. Just a view point based on logic, reasoning, and a willingness to educate myself. My ex-girlfriend was raped by a white guy, my best friend up until that time so your point is pretty invalid there too.
There's cunts of every colour, race, and creed. And there's also quality people too.
If you want to know my opinion try reading the entire thread. That's what it's there for.
I don't truly think there will be a solution in my lifetime. But the solution starts with acknowledgement that our history is a lot darker than what we are taught in High School. Whether or not that entails an apology or not, I don't give a shit. The first step is that people know the truth, how fucked up both sides were and still are.
The second step is to stop thinking of people in terms of what you've heard, or witnessed, and start taking it on a case by case basis, judge people for themselves.
I recently got three stitches in my lip from an Islander, whilst I was peaking, walking in a local park. A park that I've hung out in a thousand times, my park. That doesn't mean I hate Islanders because I've met plenty that are extremely cool people (party and sing like motherfuckers). And even if I had not, why would I not believe that there were decent people amongst them?
There's 6.6 billion people on this planet. You start closing yourself off to entire races and you're making your life a lot less interesting and rich.