Posts Tagged ‘AL-Qaeda’
Desensitization Towards Human Suffering
Hostage crises have failed to attract mainstream attention like it used to earlier. A reason perhaps is the fact that people are now desensitized to killing and shootings as a person or a group being held hostage is practically of no consequence to either governments or the masses. In fact, desensitization to crime and violence is so much that recently when two Austrians were held hostage by the North African branch of Al-Qaeda in Mali, it failed to garner any attention at all.
After 8 months when the two hostages, Andrea Kloiber and Wolfgang Ebner were released from their sandy captivity, it again failed to create any sense of excitement either in Austria or elsewhere. Unfortunate as it is, people look for statistics and not the human suffering behind the numbers.
A single person’s suffering deserves the same importance as a group of 100 people’s suffering does.
