Problem
Indifference to suffering
Experimental visualization of narrower problems
Other Names:
Failure to report sufferingSilence in response to suffering
Avoidance of reference to suffering
Indifference in response to injustice
Moral indifference
Moral tourism
Incidence:
The international community reports very selectively and to widely varying degrees on the suffering of peoples. Very extensive coverage may be given to accidents involving several hundreds of deaths. Little reference, or none at all, may be made to massacres of tens of thousands over a period of months. Whilst the media may successfully report on accidents and disasters, and occasionally on situations involving thousands of people over an extended period of time, international agencies are obliged to avoid referring to situations which are considered to be the internal concerns of particular countries or else limit themselves to emitting token resolutions protesting them. Examples include the massacres in Kampuchea and Uganda.
Broader Problems:
IndifferenceSocial apathy Narrower Problems:
Conspiracies of silenceSilence about historical situationsComplicity with structural injusticeImpaired human empathy toward animalsInadequate national empathy for external hardshipInsensitivity to the plight of disadvantaged people Aggravates:
SufferingAbandonment by the international communityFailure to legally rehabilitate victims of miscarriage of justice Strategies:
Overcoming indifferenceExhausting moral resourcesRecreating value systemsAvoiding reference to sufferingBeing indifferent Reporting sufferingEnsuring response to injusticeRelieving misery Subject(s):
Consciousness → Consciousness Information → Reference
Innovative change → Change
Societal Problems → Failure
Transportation, Telecommunications → Tourism
Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
Problem Type:
B: Basic universal problems Date of last update
04.10.2020 – 22:48 CEST