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There are only so many hours in a day. This should be true at the community level, but an individual passionately caring about all of those injustices at once w

There are only so many hours in a day. This should be true at the community level, but an individual passionately caring about all of those injustices at once will end up spamming social media with advocacy because there is not enough time to pick any one to do something with greater impact.

slim 5y ago
He does not have to care about every injustice every time. But he should not be proud about not caring.
- justanotherguy0 5y ago
  Why not? Who cares? Like he said, this is far from the worst conflict going on right now and it receives a disproportionate amount of interest. I don't care about the conflict in china or in Yemen or in syria. Because I'm a coherent person, I also don't care about what's happening in israel.
  - glogla 5y ago
    Because being proud of lack of empathy and just ... humanity is pretty fucked up?
    - novok 5y ago
      You literally do not have enough time to care about all the travesties in the world, you will just 'care' about them taking up all of your time while doing nothing to actually improve the world. You are 1 human of billions, you try to make the world better as much as one average human can. Which is for most people, raising their children well, being a good person and doing good work. You only have energy for one cause I like to say, it's up to you to choose it. So beyond a general sense of "these things suck and I emphasize, but I don't have time to think about it", there is really not much else you should do beyond that if your not actually going to do anything about it other than read some media, feel some emotions and have opinions about something you have remote to zero experience in and zero power or desire to actually do anything about it. And after that one, you have the other 100'000 small and large travesties to process.
    - justanotherguy0 5y ago
      Everything you hear and see about the wider world is because somebody else with much more power than you decided you should. By letting them decide what you care about, you've delegated your decision-making. I think that's fucked up. Also everything the other commenter said is right.
wolverine876 5y ago
> n individual passionately caring about all of those injustices at once will end up spamming social media with advocacy because there is not enough time to pick any one to do something with greater impact One solution, a well-established one, is to focus on universal human rights. The rising tide will lift all boats. Also, caring does not necessarily mean action. I do have limited time, but I've heard the above used as an excuse for most of my life, and used to subscribe to it. I've learned that while people are talking about whether and how and should you care, you can just do something. It's that easy.
- HKH2 5y ago
  When you can't even get major powers on board with universal human rights, what hope have you of going after others? They seem about as effective as the UN itself.
  - wolverine876 5y ago
    Major powers have been on board with universal human rights since WWII. They aren't always perfect, but the effort and progress since then is astounding. Look at the world now vs 1945, or 1845!
werber 5y ago
Intersectionality is just viewing all struggles commonality. You can focus on whatever you want and center it with regard to everything else that’s wrong. For me, that’s been a very hopeful concept because you obviously can’t do a million things at once.

slim 5y ago

He does not have to care about every injustice every time. But he should not be proud about not caring.

justanotherguy0 5y ago
Why not? Who cares? Like he said, this is far from the worst conflict going on right now and it receives a disproportionate amount of interest. I don't care about the conflict in china or in Yemen or in syria. Because I'm a coherent person, I also don't care about what's happening in israel.
- glogla 5y ago
  Because being proud of lack of empathy and just ... humanity is pretty fucked up?
  - novok 5y ago
    You literally do not have enough time to care about all the travesties in the world, you will just 'care' about them taking up all of your time while doing nothing to actually improve the world. You are 1 human of billions, you try to make the world better as much as one average human can. Which is for most people, raising their children well, being a good person and doing good work. You only have energy for one cause I like to say, it's up to you to choose it. So beyond a general sense of "these things suck and I emphasize, but I don't have time to think about it", there is really not much else you should do beyond that if your not actually going to do anything about it other than read some media, feel some emotions and have opinions about something you have remote to zero experience in and zero power or desire to actually do anything about it. And after that one, you have the other 100'000 small and large travesties to process.
  - justanotherguy0 5y ago
    Everything you hear and see about the wider world is because somebody else with much more power than you decided you should. By letting them decide what you care about, you've delegated your decision-making. I think that's fucked up. Also everything the other commenter said is right.

wolverine876 5y ago

> n individual passionately caring about all of those injustices at once will end up spamming social media with advocacy because there is not enough time to pick any one to do something with greater impact One solution, a well-established one, is to focus on universal human rights. The rising tide will lift all boats. Also, caring does not necessarily mean action. I do have limited time, but I've heard the above used as an excuse for most of my life, and used to subscribe to it. I've learned that while people are talking about whether and how and should you care, you can just do something. It's that easy.

HKH2 5y ago
When you can't even get major powers on board with universal human rights, what hope have you of going after others? They seem about as effective as the UN itself.
- wolverine876 5y ago
  Major powers have been on board with universal human rights since WWII. They aren't always perfect, but the effort and progress since then is astounding. Look at the world now vs 1945, or 1845!

werber 5y ago

Intersectionality is just viewing all struggles commonality. You can focus on whatever you want and center it with regard to everything else that’s wrong. For me, that’s been a very hopeful concept because you obviously can’t do a million things at once.