| We're carrying cultural inertia from simpler times when people didn't have easy access to the entire world to air their feelings. It's culturally accepted to share your pain with people you know, and it's culturally accepted not to question or tell people they should keep it to themselves. The problem is that with the Internet and social media the circle of "people you know" may easily turn out "the entire world". Quite obviously, our minds are not equipped with the capacity of feeling for everyone's tragedy. If we could truly comprehend the tragedy behind a simple statistic like "thousands die in car accidents every month" it would render us depressed and unable to function. As we feel more and more like a small village online (with a few billion people in it), the currently established "normal" cultural behavior in case of death will eventually start breaking down. You are detecting the anomaly of following cultural patterns in a global online community where those patterns are ill-fitting. But most people don't detect it, they just follow the patterns. Your thinking is not unique, but it's rare. Not many people stop to think and analyze why they're reacting the way they're reacting to your statements. Don't feel bad about the downvotes. We're merely machines running the program (culture) we've been loaded with. We do what the program says is right. |