Pippy,
This statement can't be literally true or you would have to be medicated to deal with your grief. Either that or you have such a low threshold of feeling for life that you are equally dissaffected by a death of someone very close to you. I very much doubt that you explode with grief every time you hear of a person dieing. on the planet. somewhere.
I don't think that Kyu is talking about his personal choice in how he feels about other nations. He simply realizes that the more that you identify with a person the more you will feel when one of their number die. He was using family as the "close" side of the spectrum, because those are the ones that most people identify more with than any other humans on the planet.
Kyu,
Please correct me if I am wrong, but I don't imagine you consciously choose to devalue anyone so much as you realize that is a natural thing that happens in our minds.
Rhizo
This statement can't be literally true or you would have to be medicated to deal with your grief. Either that or you have such a low threshold of feeling for life that you are equally dissaffected by a death of someone very close to you. I very much doubt that you explode with grief every time you hear of a person dieing. on the planet. somewhere.
(July 14, 2009 at 8:52 am)Pippy Wrote: ...I hold a high value to every human life on the planet, and am very, very personally upset with every death (on both sides)...
I don't think that Kyu is talking about his personal choice in how he feels about other nations. He simply realizes that the more that you identify with a person the more you will feel when one of their number die. He was using family as the "close" side of the spectrum, because those are the ones that most people identify more with than any other humans on the planet.
Kyu,
Please correct me if I am wrong, but I don't imagine you consciously choose to devalue anyone so much as you realize that is a natural thing that happens in our minds.
Rhizo
