When someone tries to get me outraged over something, I do quick distance and magnitude checks. In another country, involving people I’ve never heard of, involving low-level government officials doing something less bad than murder, which I couldn’t plausibly affect in any way? Caring would be a mistake; if my outrage threshold were that low, I’d never do anything but fume.
When someone tries to get me outraged over something, I do quick distance and magnitude checks. In another country, involving people I’ve never heard of, involving low-level government officials doing something less bad than murder, which I couldn’t plausibly affect in any way? Caring would be a mistake; if my outrage threshold were that low, I’d never do anything but fume.
Naturally, this reasoning doesn’t apply if you’re capable of doing other things while fuming.