Why are humans such freaking hippocrites?

that's not fair comparison(though agree america whole pretty hippocritical). there couple of reasons people feel way. 1. kids aren't adults in innocent, don't understand world, , don't awful things, @ least not knowingly. when's last time saw 6-year old rob liquor store, or shoot someone? 2. it's imagery. if hear terrorist on bus took machete , walked each aisle, cutting each person pieces, sounds pretty awful. on other hand, if hear enemy submarine hitting cruise ship torpedo, sounds bad, not bad, though guy machete killed 15 people, , torpedo killed thousands. 1 sounds worse.

that's difference. everyday, hear drug dealer found dead in alley, , shrugs shoulders , says "well, guess crime doesn't pay." when hear man went through school shooting innocent children, 1 one, had no means of defending themselves, hits people, parents, lot harder.

can't blame people being hypocritical there. want example of power of imagery? here. imagine driver of bus. drive around corner, , there large crowd of twenty right in way. it's late stop, if swerve, can avoid crowd. however, swerving cause hit 2 people on sidewalk. people bad is, swerving save people.

imagine not driving, standing on other sidewalk bus comes around towards crowd of twenty people. time, there no chance driver swerve. in front of large man large backpack. if shove him in front of bus, should slow down enough driver avoid crowd. killing one, , saving twenty. of sudden, situation becomes harder. shove out death? people in survey had hard time deciding.

that's why seem hippocritical. can't blame people it, it's way emotions work.

when kids die in school shooting sorrow , crap, when adults die every day on news care less.
humans such hippocrites, more specific, americans.

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