Why i’m supposed to care less about iranian children being killed in war? Is it because their government is evil? Isn’t our government bad too?

  • Jolteon@lemmy.zip
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    4 months ago

    It’s human nature to care about those close to you more than those far from you.

      • Jolteon@lemmy.zip
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        4 months ago

        Geographically yes, but I was mostly referring social and ideological distance tend to be even more important that geography, especially in modern times.

        • zedcell@lemmygrad.ml
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          4 months ago

          Goal post moving doesn’t sound too rigid now does it? Human nature seems to be awfully flexible in the right hands

          • Jolteon@lemmy.zip
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            4 months ago

            Saying “people consider them to be closer to those they talk to the most” isn’t moving the goalposts. I’m sorry I didn’t dumb it down enough.

    • yermaw@sh.itjust.works
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      4 months ago

      Absolutely. It doesnt make it factually correct, but personally. Kid in my area is in ICU after getting attacked with a hammer. Thats so much more worrying to me than school shooters in America.

      Obviously one is worse than the other, but one happened near me and one is an ocean away.

    • Weydemeyer@lemmy.ml
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      4 months ago

      It’s estimated that 30-40 children died on Oct 7th. Consider the reaction most (white) Americans had to that event to the 165 schoolchildren killed in Minab recently. Neither Israel nor Iran are meaningfully “closer” to Americans than the other.