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So~ We watched Schindler's List tonight. And I don't know.
I didn't feel anything at all.
It was just like, "Well, I still know that the Holocaust was a terrible thing intellectually, but... this isn't making it any more real for me. I still can't actually understand how terrible it was, and what it means that so many people were killed."
I think my problem is, it's like... 6 million people, I think. 6 million people were murdered. And I have trouble conceptualising 100? 6 million is a number that's just... stupidly large to me, I can't understand it.
I think my level of empathy is inversely proportional to the number of people killed by something. That's a pretty bad thing to say, but I think it's true.
The more people die, the harder it gets for me to imagine... I don't know, the people themselves? The amount of loss that is? I don't know what it is, but I don't get it.
I'm not some kind of monster, right? :( /fails at empathy
I didn't feel anything at all.
It was just like, "Well, I still know that the Holocaust was a terrible thing intellectually, but... this isn't making it any more real for me. I still can't actually understand how terrible it was, and what it means that so many people were killed."
I think my problem is, it's like... 6 million people, I think. 6 million people were murdered. And I have trouble conceptualising 100? 6 million is a number that's just... stupidly large to me, I can't understand it.
I think my level of empathy is inversely proportional to the number of people killed by something. That's a pretty bad thing to say, but I think it's true.
The more people die, the harder it gets for me to imagine... I don't know, the people themselves? The amount of loss that is? I don't know what it is, but I don't get it.
I'm not some kind of monster, right? :( /fails at empathy