Yesterday, 03:40 PM
(28-07-2025, 06:59 PM)Lilith7 Wrote: We desperately need to change things - a good start might be to teach empathy in schools, right through the school years.
It wouldn't be a bad idea either to encourage the better side of human nature...empathy, love, peace & all of that. Yeah, I know...
Yes, fully agree.
We could start with behaviour on forums when we get people who keep saying that all politicians are bastards instead of appreciating the work they do and remembering that even when we might disagree with them they have put their hands up to do a job that the rest of us weren't willing to do and have to suffer a whole lot of abuse as thanks for their efforts.
Then we could look at guiding the kinds of people like the ones I followed down a hospital corridor when an exuberant young child starting running around and instead of holding out a welcoming hand to keep the child safely at their side, he just got sworn at and told to "get here or I'll smash you".
And talking of smashing - the language of sports reporters is often very violent. How often do we here that one team "smashed" the other? When all they did was win a game.
We have a very violent society and maybe we could all start being a bit more kind and tolerant of one another instead of just criticising everyone else all the time.