I have often wondered why so many people choose to complain about occurrences and situations, yet fail to act on the things that disturb them or that they are dissatisfied with.  I have noticed time and again that if  I post a serious thought on the human condition very few people respond, yet if I post something that is light, or silly, or sarcastic, responses can flood in. Are people afraid to care, or just afraid to show that they do?
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I think people are afraid to face their thoughts. I have found many times people give very vague answers or just simply say “I don’t know.” I don’t believe people want to think about what os outside of their own situation. It makes things a little too real. This non action frustrates me because I think it takes mentally putting ourselves in a situation to really lend a helping hand. The “what if it were me” mentality
I agree,Calvetta. I don’t know can mean “I am not prepared to deal with what facing this may require or me or mean in my life.”
Keep in mind not everyone agrees on what is a serious issue, too. What you may feel is important others may not find as compelling. Also, if they strongly disagree, places like Facebook where everyone is public tames debates. I’m on many anonymous political forums– serious issues are discussed, and blood (rhetorical) is spilt in ways that would never come out if folks knew who the posters were. Medium affects the message.
One also has to know what one can change, and what one cannot. I’ve seen many a social worker turn salseperson after a few years due to their desire to change the world, then becoming frustated when they can only affect a few people at a time. I’ve always known that the only way to change the world via social work IS a few people at a time, even at the policy level- you need to work with the few folks at the top- so I don’t let macro issues stress me. But many, many people due stress over them- and would rather not comment on them, at least not publicly, for fear of controversy.
Agree Michael. The fear of controversy and the need to appear a certain way keeps too many silent. Also agree change comes in small increments. Funny, it seems more people care about violence done to animals than violence done to people, even children, and this has hisortically, with child welfare having its foundation in ASPCA.
Violence among people has many reasons and implications– folks may not comment as a way to avoid violence done to them! Even with children- the personal and political, parental rights vs child safety, what standards to set…makes a lot of folks back off! Violence to animals is simpler- they don’t have the factional allegiances that makes human on human violence such a complex isssue.