BonesOfTheMoonEvery day.
FizzYou either find a way to cope or live your life worrying about something ultimately out of your control. As long as I’m voting and spending my money thoughtfully then I believe I’m doing enough.
Food insecurity is something outside of most people’s control, last I checked, humans can only cope without food for about a week before death sets in.
Then I guess they will live their life worrying about something outside their control and ultimately die.
God it must be blissful to live without any kind of empathy towards the struggles others go through.
is that what you think you’re doing? being empathetic? you are all making yourselves miserable and refusing to look at anything in a positive light. blame the system, blame the man, blame capitalism, fine - - what are you going to DO about it? fuck your empathy, do something or start living well
Bold of you to assume I just sit on lemmy all day posting memes. Actually join in a handful of volunteer service events throughout the year, some through work, other times personally. I also encourage others the vote for candidates who are more likely to bring about positive changes for our society.
So, yes I am being empathetic, and that empathy does actually drive me to take the steps I can take to make other people’s lives better. But at the end of the day, all of this work can very quickly be for naught unless we simultaneously fix the overarching systems in place that led to the unnecessary problems people suffer.
You try to help people locally - that’s great! I didn’t initially get that you were saying “Perspective isn’t enough.” Action is definitely important. When is it enough, though? (There’s always more people to help.) Can it *ever *be enough, without the shift in perspective alongside it?
Yeah I do help locally, I’m lucky enough that I have the means and ability to help others. But that still doesn’t change the fact that people can’t just cope and hope their way out of food insecurity. Plain and simple, every single one of us needs food, our bodies and minds will go through great lengths driving us to find food, we literally cannot turn off the neural pathways that tell us we’re hungry and that we need to eat. You can’t “positive thinking” your way put of an empty stomach while your body breaks itself down for energy.
It must be so tiring pretending to care about every single issue of the world. You must be a real white savor. I hope all the struggling people can hang on long enough for you to come save them.
I have empathy for others while understanding that their situation is outside of my control. I do small things like vote and help where I can but beyond that there is no point in harming your mental wellbeing when you are not in a position to help.