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Not horrible. Just different. Why be a clone, ya know?
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haha. yeah i agree it sucks when people die but im not gonna start crying over it lol
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If I felt sad about every person that had died for any reason other than natural causes then I would have committed suicide long ago.
Being sad won't bring them back from the dead, it won't make you feel better about something that you had no control over.
There are a lot more important things to worry about - like making sure people don't die for the same reasons again.
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Then we're two horrible people.
They're dead and, even if they were alive, people don't want us to feel sorry for them. They hate pity.
One day we'll die too and we gotta get ready that probably only 1 or 2 people will remember us. So whatever. We'll all go through the same.
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I don't think you're a horrible person either..
The people who still feeling really sad and stuff about the holocaust, are usely older than we are..
They lost their father or grandfathers in the war, we usely don't.. Also they don't feel sorry anymore for all those people who died in wars which are like 200 years ago, don't they?
So I just think that, with time, no one will think about the people who died in WW II anymore.. Which is actually kind of sad
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I don't think that's wrong. I think it's something about the way they teach it though. I know that this might not be how you feel, but I feel this: you can sympathize with numbers. they tell you facts, but you can learn more from a single photo graph than you can in all the history books. It's sad like that
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You aren't horrible. I mean, it doesn't hit you as hard as it hits someone else. When I first read this, it hurt me, but that's only because I really care about what happened. If it were something else, it may not bother me.
Does that make both you and I selfish?
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I love the variation in replies.. xD
I personally think- it doesn't make you a bad person- they're situations that happened years ago, that we have no relation too, let alone were involved with.
I think they are horrid, but ya'know, at the end of the day, there's nothing we can do about them, so I don't care that much.
If it was to happen again, then that'd be a different situation..
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Nop...
That makes you a human from a, at least, 3rd world country who was born after 1975
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no, not a horrible person. alot of people don't care about something unless its an issue involving them or someone they know.
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no. it's not necessarily relevant to you. i mean it's sad that all those people died, but i'm sure you have plenty of things going on in your life. and to not care about things that aren't really relevant to you doesn't make you a bad person
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Yes, it does.
I hate to be so rude in this comment, but truly when there are people that feel that way, I am offended.It way just be that the whole situation doesn't really mean much to you, because it feels so distant and so fictional to you. I don't mean to be bashing you, ST, as others are and have been doing to other secrets. It just makes me feel a bit sick inside to see this secret.
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I also feel the same way. People who feel that way upset me and I just wish that people could care about each other and have sympathy towards something so serious as the holocaust. I'm glad I'm not the only one who was upset by this secret.
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I often find that with a lot of events in the past, whether modern or older history. Often it's easy to think of them as just numbers, words on a page, but each of them was a person with a life and most often a family and friends.
Then again, they were people you didn't know, and spending to much time 'crying over spilt milk'* doesn't get anything done except increase feelings of guilt and helplessness. It is good to remember and reflect, but it's more important to live for the present and learn from past experiances.
*I don't mean that in a cruel way, but we can't change the past and dwelling on it to long distracts from what's happening around you, the genecides which are happening now which you can help stop for example.
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the important thing about history is that you understand it was bad, and you learn from it.
theres no obligation to be emotional about it.
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There are a lot of people that think history is boring, and I believe this is the case with your feelings, that you feel the past is the past and you can't change it. But remember: yes, you can't change the past, but you can always change the future. And maybe one day it will be up to you to prevent something like this from happening again. But if you forget the past nothing will ever improve, because how should anything get better if you don't learn from your mistakes? Or from the mistakes other people made?
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I don't know if this will help, but please watch this:
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It is a documentary on the Armenian Genocide, by System of a Down. They explain why it's so important to NEVER FORGET. Even if you don't like their music, please watch this, you can always forward through the music bits.
I don't think you're a horrible person, as there isn't alot you can do on the scale that's needed. BUT, you can spread the word -- make sure that we never forget, we are keeping their memories alive so that it doesn't get completely covered up.
Also, have a read of 'Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account ' br Dr.Miklos Nyiszli. He also explains why it's important that we never forget.
I can't say alot more because there is just so much to say. Hope these references are of some help to you.
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Not really.
There's still so many events that people go on about that happened ages ago...
A lot of them were terrible, yeah, but I guess that's why they're an interesting topic.
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Oh, not really, why care? They anyway would have said you're a horrible person. And I bet they also really enjoy themselves dead.
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I guess we should keep things like that in mind, so we won't do it again. But otherwise I agree with you. I never cared much for this, either.
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actually I think your attitude could be common sense... I think the same: IT HAPPENED 65 YEAR AGO... It shouldn't be a matter for concern anymore...
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So just because something happened in the past people shouldn't feel upset that MILLIONS of people were MURDERED. That's silly. I'm upset by it and every other genocide because it's sickening how many people were killed and how almost a whole did nothing to stop it just because of fear. There are so many past events that still upset people today. So your reasoning that it's okay to not care about millions of people who were carelessly murdered is hard to understand. I'm upset by the amount of people who don't care if it doesn't effect them. I believe that is part of all the hatred in the world. People need to care about the systematic mass killing of millions of people. Our world needs to care about each other. Imagine if you were one of the Jews, Gypsies mentally sick, homosexuals, or elderly who was murdered because no one cared. Put yourself in their shoes I'm sure you'd want someone to care about you.
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I can't put myself in their shoes, they're dead...
Look, if I lost a direct relative, then I'd be upset, yes, I'll admit that, but my oldest direct relative was born 17 years AFTERWARDS... I think that it shouldn't be such a touchy subject unless you have lost someone in your immediate family. There are things that are going on now that affect us NOW and things that happened 65 years ago shouldn't be a matter to be upset about NOW when we have to worry about current events!
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that doesn't make you a horrible person. the truth is that it really is horrible that those things happened, but that's the past and nobody can do anything 
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Your not horrible.
What the hell where you supposed to do?
Go and save them all?
Bring them back to life?
I dont see the point of people saying they care when they dont.
Your so not alone
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ST, it really isn't just you. There are all sorts of studies and things around that tell about younger people/ generations not having the same connections to the horrors of the past. It can be hard to sympathize or empathize with events in history because there is less of a direct connection to the people and places that went through horrors like the holocaust, because especially with the teenagers of today, it isn't us or our parents who were alive during that time. It was our grandparents and great grandparents.
I know what you mean about thinking 'who cares', because sometimes, I feel like the world tries too hard to shove info down my throat. But I think that one just has to remember(and I know how corny it sounds, and you hear it everywhere), that we learn history so we don't make the same mistakes.
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I think you just feel like that because it's hard for something to feel real when it happened such a long time ago. You didn't know any of those people, you weren't there.
Sometimes you just have to remind yourself it isn't just some story somebody made up, all those people were real and it really happened. You know what I mean?
Maybe that helped in some way...
As long as you don't plan on recreating it, I couldn't care less if you care or not :'D
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In my mind I'm like
alright wow that sucks for them...
and no it doens't bec I have the same thoughts as well
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That doesn't make you a horrible person. I spend a fair amount of time researching things like that too (my favorite is the Holocaust) and after a while, it just stops affecting you. You start looking at it from more of a professional, historian standpoint. People who know only the bare minimum don't understand that at all.
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I'm sorry, but I can't really agree with ' professional/historian= not being/being less affected".
I don't think I could exactly count as an expert on any topic, but I have been hearing about and also 'studying' the Holocaust my whole life and it still makes me sick and sometimes even makes me cry.
On the same token, there are things in history that, no matter how much I learn about them, I'm still amazed about, in a positive sense.
I personally think the more you learn about a topic, the more you'll be affected by it.
Not saying here that the ST (or you) is a horrible person either, people all take things differently, but I don't think it has all that much to do with how much you know about a subject...
And man, sorry about getting off topic there, I guess.
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I suppose it all depends on the individual person. I was just speaking from my own experience.
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Yes, actually, you are a bad person.
When 9 million people die because of something that could've been prevented it's pretty important to learn about it.
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I know a quote that relates somewhat.
"One death is a tragedy, one thousand is a statistic"
That's what it feels like for me too
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Meh, I have a hard time caring about things so far in the past too.
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I guess it's hard to feel much when it hasn't happened in your time period or to someone you know. Some of us are sensitive, though. As long as you learn from it, I think you're okay.
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i'm even worse, in a way i think it's a good thing because so much knowlege was gained by the nazi's about what the human body can withstand etc.
and the earth already has too many people on it, imagine if all those people didnt die. it'd be even worse.
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But killing isn't the way to solve the problem of overpopulation.
People can just have less kids.
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that takes time, and while we do that, the rest of the planet suffers.
and i'm not sure dictating how many kids people can have works in countries that arent china.
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So kill people instead.
Yeah, that works.
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well i wouldnt go out anmd do it but there were benefits
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Or we could live underwater. Lots more space there.
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Nah, it's your personal opinion. Sometimes people just say that they care, just to seem polite or whatever. It's ok.
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You don't have to feel bad for the people in the past, just learn from what happened and don't repeat their mistakes. You have to remember, everything that happened, good or bad, shaped the present in some way, and when you get down to the heart of it, the present isn't all that bad, right? I mean, it could be a LOT worse.
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A lot of your apathy has to do with your age group. Kids today have not had to face the same sort of turmoil as in the past and they have a direct apathy to anything that has to do with conflict. You're not a horrible person...but you're not really reaching out of your stereotypical youth mindset either.
A lot of people /are/ passionate about the victims of the Holocaust, and a lot of people would go to the bat to tell you that it still impacts our day to day lives. I'm just going to tell you to try and appreciate history a little more.
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Not caring about the past doesn't make you a horrible person. you're only a horrible person if you kill all those people or something.
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ok that last part's a lie, but still. you're not a horrible person.
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I don't think that makes you a bad or mean person. In the end, they're allready dead, so it doesn't matter wether we're sad, happy or indiferent about them. It's better to worry for the ones alive.
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