Why Do So Many Americans Lack Empathy?

Whenever there is talk of war so many people talk about "carpet bombing" this country or that country. Are you guys (*)(*)(*)(*)ing serious? All of these innocent people dying, for what? Who are you people? Repent or your judgment, I assure you, will not be pleasant. The hell you speak of for others will be your hell for eternity.

I am not anti-war just to be anti-war. But can we at least wait until we are threatened first?

 

If Katushas fly into Israel then "Carpet Bombing sounds like a good response.

 

Israel has the 4th most powerful military on earth. They can defend themselves and how come we fight wars for Israel but they don't lift a finger for us? What has Israel done for us?

US military is a volunteer military on purpose. They want to attract the psychopaths and sociopaths. They want to attract the men and women who have no souls.
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Good god. Israel hasn't helped us because accepting their help would likely cause more problems in the middle east. Also the military does not want a bunch of psychos. People join up for many reasons but I never met one person who joined up because they wanted to kill a bunch of random people. If someone told their CO that's why they joined up they'd be drummed out in an instant.

You do have two good points here though. First off yes it's sick to see people yelling about how we need to just blow everyone up regardless if they are the enemy or not. On the other hand the US military needs to be swift, accurate, and deadly. Iraq is a great example of how things should work, well the war part not the staying there for nearly a decade.

Second we shouldn't be going to war with third world countries who aren't a threat on a regular basis as we have been. It's pointless. This war is a great example because we're fighting terrorism entirely wrong. You can't fight an unconventional enemy that exists in small groups in many nations by taking over nations. It just doesn't work. This is a job for intelligence, not military might.

 

We are not fighting terrorism. We are killing people and invading nations to take resources.

 

If this is true, why is oil so expensive?

 

Because our government does not care about us. People need to wake up. The top 5% are making a fortune off of these wars. Look into our reasons for going into Libya, Iraq..based on lies. Gaddafi is a good leader with an 80% approval rating. He used his nation's rich resources to enrich his people. Now we are essentially carpet bombing villages over there. Libya is also rich in resources other than oil such as gold, for instance.
http://www.youtube.com/user/108morris108 Take a break from western media for just a second and watch these interviews. Afghanistan has 90% of the world's poppy supplies. Poppy is used to make heroin but also methadone, Vicodin, morphine, among other opiate painkillers. We have troops guarding the poppy fields day and night.

 

They are concerned only with money.

 

Who is they? You are wrong the Americans I am talking about actually seem to believe troops are protecting us and millions of people need to die to stay safe.

 

I always here lib idiots say we invaded Iraq for oil.

The REALITY is all the big Iraqi oil contracts went to Russia and China

If it was up to me I would wipe the entire middle east off the map, dumbest most backwards people on the planet who do NOTHING for humanity

 

So you miscalculate? Does that tell you anything?

 

So, we are in Afghanistan for Heroine?

 

The Constitution doesn't require empathy, only justice.

 

LOL...says the ultra-heeb contingent...LOL

 

Well thank you for this rather callous exhibition.

The answer to why the lack of empathy is, IMO, a simple psychological response to our own living conditions. Perhaps you have noticed that...in general terms...empathy is much more abundant in smaller towns or in the country. But in big cities we have things like ROAD RAGE...GOING POSTAL...These are a product of over population. It makes people crabby and they tend to retreat into their homes where its roomy, quiet and safe. Anything outside the door can go to hell.

Kill 'em all...is an extension of that.

 

..or it could be the images of millions of "moderate and ordinary" muslims across the globe dancing in the streets and burning American flags on 9/11 and the days following in a giant orgy of praise to Allah and Osama bin Laden that were burned into our psyches and those of us who remember it hold a bit of a grudge like a never fully healed wound that the scab gets torn off every time another Islamic fanatic shoots up an Army base or snipes civilians in the nations capital?

I'd say that has more to do with it. Genuine and righteous anger.

 

Carpet bombing is nothing new. America first started carpet bombing nations in May 1964. This changed the face of war and how wars are fought today.

Aerial bombardment without the need or risk to send in ground troops.

 

Sorry carpet bombing never happened in Iraq or Afganistan although i wish they did employ it

In my opinion the vast majority of Arabs in the middle east are uneducated animals and mankind would be better off with them gone

 

I understand what you are saying and I believe most of talk like that is more hyperbole then anything else.

However, our "enemies" didn't seem to be concerned with "innocents" when they flew two plane (full of innocent passengers) into two buildings full of innocent people.

 

It depends on the situation.

Carpet bombing isn't particularly common now. There is an active effort to make weapons smarter, so as to reduce collateral damage. We're more keen on using guided missiles than just bombing things to bits these days.

While some people are gung ho about war, I think most people who advocate bombing this country or that are just being emotional or paranoid.

If it really came down to it, most people would not personally flip the switch if they were charged with dropping bombs themselves.

So, in a way, you could characterize this support as a matter of "out of sight, out of mind."

 

The US military does not recklessly or randomly carpet bomb an area. We have ROE and conventions to follow. If you actually knew anything about the military you would know that.

 

Obviously this guy or child, whateva, knows nothing about the Military.

Most hippie tree huggers would wet their pants if they were dropped in an actual war zone.

They are couch warriors with laptops who read something on the internetz and think they know WTF they are talking about. And theres always some scrub traitor who was a cook in the military and now hes a hippie activist, those are my favorite.