It's a scary thought how sensitive and emotional we are about terrible events that we are still suffering the after-effects from- for example, WWII and the holocaust, vowing 'never again'- and yet history has shown again and again that all this will soon fade away into more numbers and statistics and photos and insignificance.
If you don't believe me, just look further back.
We read of all the raping and pillaging some thousand years back with a sense of disdain/distaste, believing we have progressed very far, from 'back in the day'. Thus, their wars and struggles were insignificant- we are fighting much bigger battles nowadays, with the war against nuclear weapons, terrorists, etc.. But who is to say that any pain and suffering inflicted today is > (including in importance) any hurt inflicted in any point in history?
I argue that the emotional, physical and spiritual damage (and any other damage possible) is immeasurable- both quantitatively and qualitatively; thus, the above point holds true.
(To clarify and expand on that point, and as an example of how pain is relative to the individual's experience of it at a given point in time, take me for example. If I were to suddenly get my finger chopped off right now, I would probably feel as if I were experiencing the worst pain in the world. But perhaps just a month before, I had said the same thing of a stomach ache. My point being, us humans are very narrow minded; we can only see what's straight ahead in front of ourselves)
Yet, we seem to have forgotten all about it.
Okay I'm rambling. But I find it interesting to think about things. Perhaps I think too much.
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