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[–] SirEDCaLot@lemmy.today 15 points 1 day ago

He's 100% right.

Today in modern society we talk about war and policy as abstract things. This policy caused 10,000 poor people to lose food stamps, that policy caused 20,000 people to lose their homes, there was a war and 30,000 innocent people died. It's data points on a graph, that we debate academically. We say this makes us 'civilized', that we give 'dignity' to those who suffered and died.

It's crap. The people who got blown up are dead, they don't give a fuck anymore.

We SHOULD be showing the 12 year old who got half his leg blown off screaming as medics carry his dead parents out of a bombed building. We SHOULD be showing blood, gore, dead bodies. These are the result of the policies we enact, we are hypocritical liars to shield ourselves from the effects of what we do.

Because the fact is the majority of Western people live in a bubble of ignorance. We can say academically that we know violence exists, but many of us live our lives sometimes without ever encountering it, so it's not real.
The result of that is a lot of bullshit that people think is right. Like if a kid fights back against a bully he gets suspended due to 'zero tolerance' for violence (nevermind that he reported the bully 15 times and the teacher did nothing). Or the huge number of people who think that prohibiting gun ownership will work any better than prohibiting drug ownership.

[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 53 points 1 day ago (3 children)
[–] FatVegan@leminal.space 1 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Well they have to be pretty happy that no one talks about their rapes anymore

[–] Akh@lemmy.world 3 points 13 hours ago

I mean, to their credit, they did implant a shit ton of reforms to protect kids it is far leas an issue with the catholic church that say baptist or mormons. What was true 20 years ago is not true today

[–] Cavemanfreak@programming.dev 6 points 1 day ago

I had my doubts about an american pope, but he has surprised me.

[–] FenrirIII@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

He's American from Chicago, I think he'll surprise us.

[–] GardenGeek@europe.pub 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I think he has a verry good point there. Imho many people, unlike their parents/ gradparents, have forgotten how brutal and unraveling war is and how much suffering it brings upon others which lose dear family members and/or their health.

This might be largely due to mass media showing only piles of rubble and not the human misery underneath and infront of it because it's deemed ,,to upsetting" for the broad public. But that misery is on of the core points why we once intended to end all wars. There are exceptions of course (like some well made documentaries) but one has to actually search for them and expose oneself willingly... when in reality the matter should concern each and every one of us.

[–] kandoh@reddthat.com 4 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

Not just war, but diseases as well. Every news story about vaccines or measles just shows images of needles, they should show images of people suffering from the disease.

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago

“If it bleeds it leads!”

“Wait! Not like this!”

-Pete Kegshit