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mozgovayaThere are strict limits to human empathy. We make some people's troubles our business while we ignore the troubles of others. We are more likely to care about kin than about strangers, to feel closest to those connected to us by bonds of history, tradition, creed, ethnicity and race. ndeed, because moral impingement is always a burden, we may use these differences as an excuse to avoid or evade obligation. In fact, there is nothing instinctive about the emotions stirred in us by pictures of atrocity or suffering. Our pity is structured by history and culture.
The idea, for example, that we owe an obligation to all human beings by simple virtue of the fact that they are human is a modern conception.
Real distance is abolished by technology, moral distance is only abolished by a persuasive story.
However, it may be the case that press cannot create any moral relationship between audience and victim where none exists already.
The idea, for example, that we owe an obligation to all human beings by simple virtue of the fact that they are human is a modern conception.
Real distance is abolished by technology, moral distance is only abolished by a persuasive story.
However, it may be the case that press cannot create any moral relationship between audience and victim where none exists already.
