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fandomsecrets2011-08-16 07:58 pm
case) wrote in fandomsecrets2011-08-16 07:58 pm
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Notes:
This is not your forum to identify and call out specific people just to call them assholes. Call out general actions you find reprehensible, mod ability/inability, that kind of stuff, but once you get into what basically amounts to 'this person is a stupid bitch and here are some icons/an lj layout/add. info to identify them with' - no.
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(Anonymous) 2011-08-17 04:33 pm (UTC)(link)It also reminds me of a conversation (if you could even call it that) that I stumbled across on a forum a few weeks ago.They were discussing the starvation problem in Africa at the moment and the hundreds of women who were forced to leave their dying babies on the side of the road because they were too weak to carry them any further or because their babies were so close to dying there was no point taking them any further. And there were so many commenters sitting at their expensive computers in their comfortable homes with a stomach full of food, calling the women "monsters" and "cunts" for leaving their babies behind, and "whores" for even choosing to have babies in the first place (because we all know that women in third-world countries get the very best sex education available! they also never ever get raped.)
The fact of the matter is, nobody knows how they would react in a life-or-death situation. We like to think we would act rationally and treat others equally and with respect. But if you're scared, alone and dying for food and water, there's no doubt most people would stomp on others just to get to safety and/or a full stomach. Our instincts for survival are far stronger than our societal expectation to treat others nicely (especially if we're in a situation where societal expectations don't matter, e.g. on a deserted island).
I remember seeing something similar.
(Anonymous) 2011-08-17 09:31 pm (UTC)(link)There was this woman...and she really looked like a skeleton with skin over her, she did, and she was carrying her infant into a refugee camp.
Turns out, she started off the journey with two kids - but she did not have the strength to carry them both. So she decided to leave the older one, hoping he'd survive, and decided to try and save the younger one. Once in the camp, she found her husband and he went looking for the older infant, but I don't know if they found him (and if he was alive). These are heart wrenching decisions, but these people need to make them. If she had not left one child, likely both she and the second child would not have made it, and there would have been 3 dead.
But it's easy to judge with our fridges full.