Some Topics I Can’t Read

[Jules]

If a title seems like it’s about the torture or unacceptable death of a child, I just can’t read the topic. There’s no reason anybody should leave their little child in the back of a hot vehicle. Or female ******* mutilation in some countries. All too sad.

 

[RadishRose]

Big ditto on that!

 

[Paco Dennis]

There is a plethora off horror stories on the web. I guess some people get off reading about or seeing horrible things. Sad.

 

[Murrmurr]

Same! I've developed an even stronger aversion to those kind of stories since Paxton was reunited with his mother...again.

 

[Remy]

Me too. And anything sad regarding animals. I click on "uninterested" buttons for that kind of stuff.

 

[Aunt Bea]

and yet some people feel the need to create threads about every gruesome bit of clickbait they can find.

Sometimes SF feels like a supermarket tabloid.

 

[Tish]

Animals and children do me in,

 

[Packerjohn]

I stopped reading "shock" news a long time ago and I'm a better person for that. I prefer to read news about rising interest rates, the price of gas and human interest stories but not "garbage" news. Actually, if you ask me, the less news the better the world would be. Perhaps garbage news is made directly to please the losers of this world who see the world as an ugly horrible place and hey, "here is the proof on today's 6 o'clock news." I'm glad I have a life beyond TV and a life without starring at the smartphone for 16 hours each day.

 

[fuzzybuddy]

We know, all too well, about the sick, depraved, inhumane doings of our fellow humans. We have to psychologically protect ourselves from all the crazies out there. Since we are mostly powerless to prevent the gore, we have to ignore it.

 

[Em in Ohio]

I have always been adverse to cruelty, terror, hatred, injustice, and traumatic events - but I wanted to know, in hopes of changing the world. Naïve. The older I get (although I still care deeply), the less I am inclined to expose myself to all the negativity. My time on earth is running out. I can only hope to change things for a small circle of family, animals, and friends. And, I need to take care of my own mental health if I am to die happy.

 

[Fyrefox]

We all need to psychologically disconnect from the endless sea of suffering and cruelty that is all around us, not that we are insensitive to it but in order that we can remain untainted and so more effective as individuals to influence those things that we can in life…