Flu Shot gone wrong? Just "Walk it Out"......

[the mongoose]

So fucked, but still kinda funny.

[Strangelet]

Its interesting, this phenomena. I guess from the lack of responses, people feel the way I do about this. That its 1. not funny and 2. indicative of how apathetic, emotionally deadened, and solipsistic people can be. The "kitty genovese" syndrome doesn't quite cut it. That's more an indication of how people can be indifferent to suffering. Whereas, mongoose here is clearly not indifferent. you got your funny bone tickled an shit. Schadenfreude doesn't quite fit it either. Its context is more cerebral, analytic. Whereas the response to these things is more akin to a pack of hyenas.

Is it all that unfair to connect the kind of mentality that would create and be amused by such videos with people who would walk by a girl getting gang raped for 2 1/2 hours, laughing and taking pictures?

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/...R8gQgD9BL0IF01

[IsiliRunite]

Total Responsibility required over / x people = less personal responsibility.

Is it really a surprise to you that people follow the temporary social norm rather than the permanent ethics that they claim to have?

[Strangelet]

Originally Posted by IsiliRunite

Total Responsibility required over / x people = less personal responsibility.

I don't accept the premise of this. Ethics isn't distributed and if effect watered down by the process of expanding ethical responsibility across a group of people. For example, I'm an unabashed misanthrope. But in practice that means I hate everyone in general and hate no one in particular.

Originally Posted by IsiliRunite

Is it really a surprise to you that people follow the temporary social norm rather than the permanent ethics that they claim to have?

By temporary you mean situational. Situation of one's individuality being muted by group mentalities or situations where the inviduality of the victim is muted by an authority. That's more along the lines of the kitty genovese syndrome.

I'm talking about a trend that may exist where people are being slowly desensitized to causal impacts towards other people by the process of alienation from one another. File this under the reports recently by some psychologists suggesting that things like twitter and facebook are making us "less moral" by virtue of the fact that we are replacing deep interaction between individuals with spammy updates about our experiences at the mall.

[jOHN rODRIGUEZ]

I dread shopping at the malls. Someone should start a philosophical thread in regards to over-consumption. It is a much more serious national problem than many would think.