Disregarding your polical party choice, just as a human question, why has mass deaths of innocence become....?

Question

accepted as a part of human culture?

"politcal" party choice

where is hope? can some show me hope?

Is there anyone able to give me hope?

Is hope gone?

If hope is gone, where do we go from here?

Answer 1

I am Native American Trust me it is not a new thing

Answer 2

It's probably down to the globalisation of the news media.
In the past the newspapers and other media could be relied upon to 'filter' the news they published according to the guidelines of the local government. Not that they were controlled so much as they were willing to resist the urge to sensationalise their output.
Nowadays, the news media does not have a nationality as such. If one country asks that a story is played down, they publish in another and let it be known.

The emergence of satellite news channels has also had a lot to do with this because each channel is trying to outdo the others with their stories. The more sensational the story, the higher the ratings. This is why you see beheadings, hangings, shootings, etc. in full colour, high-definition, surround sound stereo on the wall-to-wall tv.

As the channels have developed this style of reporting, so the people have lost the ability to tell the difference between news and action movies. We have become desensitised to pain and suffering.

Answer 3

I think people sort of disregard such things because they think the world is a big place. It's not. It's extremely small. We all affect each other. Everyone sees the genocide reports on the news and says "Oh, what a shame. It won't happen to me." They don't know the people, they don't live in the country. Why should they care?

WRONG. Because it could be their country. It could be their family and friends. It's not about political parties. It's about people being told that the dead weren't innocent, that it was an accident, that it's not our business. We all live on this earth, and death is so final. I don't think people realize that it's truly real. That somewhere out there, a true life has ended.

We have this complex that serious things only happen to people we know. If we didn't know the innocent dead, it didn't happen, did it? That's what people think. It's so sad.

Answer 4

Mass deaths of innocents have always been a part of reality but, in the past, they were usually due to natural disaster or invading military. As warfare became more sophisticated and true weapons of mass destruction became more prevalent, people did start trying to prevent 'non-combatants' from being killed as witnessed by the Geneva Convention (and others).
But there's still not much that can be done to prevent natural disasters. They happen, they get reported.
And mass deaths from 'terrorist' actions don't really fall under the heading of 'warfare' (unless you actually accept the absurd claim that terrorists are really 'freedom fighters') so they don't usually get a lot of airtime. Again; They happen, they get reported.
Maybe a lot of it is that news has to sell. And that means that it has to be 'new'. Lots of people dying in a tidal wave or an earthquake or a terrorist bombing are news when it happens, but old news the following day.

Doug

Answer 5

I wouldn't say that it's accepted as much as it is part of life. Like the tsunami in 2005 that killed over 120,000 people.

Quite tragic, but unavoidable.

Now, genocide, etc., those acts that result in massive human deaths and casualties at the hands of other people...it's the Not in My Back Yard theory. As long as it isn't happening directly to us or someone we know, it doesn't apply.

Equally as tragic a thought, but that's what I think.

Answer 6

Because war has been a part of human culture since the beginning of human culture. Name a part of history when there was no war?

That doesn't make it right - but it does make it part of life.

And right or wrong has more to do with which side you are on. Both sides generally feel they are justified in what they do.

Answer 7

it is only accepted if we are not the ones to be killed. it also has to do with the human instinct to survive. its just that now days we see our "way of life" as survival.
humans have become selfish and greedy, a deadly combination. whether this greed is money, power or simply territorial it blinds us into thinking we should kill our own race(human). this comes from both sides of the issue.
there are many people in each society that wish to have nothing to do with war but just as many that do. when someone say that our "way of life" is in jeopardy, then it tends to get the masses to agree that war is the answer. also the fact that people die everyday has its influence that it is ok.

Answer 8

Could it be that it is group Karma playing out? I do not know.
Could it be that it is to give more people a chance at evolving faster in a next lifetime? I do not know.
Could it be that we all are part of one another and we must face how numb we have become to others/our pain? I do not know.
Could it be that it is supposed to play out like this? you guessed it.... I just do not know! But I do know that a critical mass will one day stand up and say "No More!"

Answer 9

If we care about every genocide, we will no longer sleep. We have also become numb to death. It is human nature to kill ourselves anyway.

Answer 10

You sound as if this is a recent development.