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Re:U.S. surgeons transplant pig heart into human patient by sailfast on Monday January 10, 2022 @11:18PM (#29887476)
A MILLION people? Not one bit? "Perhaps intellectually I would have some compassion for them?"

I guess you're proving Stalin (paraphrasing Tucholsky?[0]) was right? "The death of one is a tragedy, but the death of millions, a statistic.

[0]https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2011/0603/Political-m...

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Re:U.S. surgeons transplant pig heart into human patient by csee on Tuesday January 11, 2022 @07:05AM (#29890516)
Isn't this normal? We didn't evolve to feel much compassion in the abstract for people outside of our group, especially not if there aren't visual or auditory cues that they're suffering.
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Re:U.S. surgeons transplant pig heart into human patient by RalfWausE on Tuesday January 11, 2022 @06:55AM (#29890406)
Why should he? If he didn't knew anyone of the dead, i can totaly relate to this. I, for me personally speaking, would see it as factual BAD would a million people die tomorrow of Covid, but i wouldn't mourn anyone if i didn't know him personally.

Perhaps i am a psychopath, but even an event like 9/11 left me just with the feeling of "oh, i think this is not good" instead of the shock or anything like my peers expressed...

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