Murder vs Indifference

[Ginsan]

The only difference between indifference and murder is that murder is right in your face. Everybody knows that there are millions of people in pain, dying, being tortered by humans or diseases all over the world, but who tries to help those people?Very few. Now, if you saw someone being tortered, raped, horribly injured and left to die and you were just watching, unable to do anything about it (for whatever reason), if you're a normal person you will probably be haunted by this for the rest of your life and feel unspeakable compassion and regret that you couldn't do anything. But why is everybody so indifferent to the suffering that is NOT right in our faces? If you broke your smartphone, would you donate the 300 dollars at hand to charity and buy a cheap phone or would you buy a new smarthpone? What I'm argueing is that we are not the wonderful people we think we are. It's possible that a torturer, serial rapist or killer does more good in the world than an average person. The people suffering from these "crimes" can feel horrified by this and become better people as a result. I am just as indifferent as most people and it's a sad fact that it only bothers me a little bit. And right now the thing that occupies my mind is how proud I am of myself that I posted this clever and shocking text. I also think that I'm better than most people because I realised this and I am not ashamed or shy about my arrogance.