Recent questions tagged apathy

Description : What would be a cause of apathy?

Last Answer : They either don’t have enough empathy or they have reached the “been there, done that” stage when everything isn’t too shocking to them.

Description : Some people believe MYOB is the way to go, but doesn’t that allow for some issues that should be attended to, to go ignored?

Last Answer : answer:Yes, MYOB is failing to face reality, not confronting injustice, staying stuck in one's own misery. And in many instances when one gets involved and someone says mind your own business that's ... business! If one mined their own beeswax, better be careful that the bees don't sting you.

Description : How could a soldier get hacked up and killed by people with machetes and butcher knives?

Last Answer : They very likely staked out the barracks & struck out of nowhere, nothing anyone could've done for the poor guy. He'd already been mowed down by their car & passers-by initially assumed they ... the incident took place right near a primary school, things could've gotten a whole lot worse.

Description : How far do you get involved if witness to a lopsided fight?

Last Answer : I’d have to get involved. I couldn’t let a man get beaten to death.

Description : Help! I think I'm becoming too unemotional!

Last Answer : You are becoming what I want to be. Vulcan. Embrace getting rid of emotions, embrace logic and reason instead.

Description : What can be done about the apathy that people feel towards world issues?

Last Answer : People really need to get involved in their communities and the communities of others so that they can develop empathy in the place of apathy. Really personal experience or caring about someone ... see some type of incentive program that encouraged people to be more active in their communities.

Description : Does apathy equate to cowardice? Should the two be compared?

Last Answer : I don't see any necessary relationship between them. I can see any of the following possible combinations existing: apathetic and cowardly apathetic and not cowardly not apathetic and cowardly not apathetic and not ... , I don't see how you can equate one with the other. What's the situation?

Description : How do tyrants rise to power?

Last Answer : it’s a very very slow process, and of course, some realize quicker then others, i guess by the time you realize it’s already too late…