"People will watch this, be shocked and disturbed, and then go back to eating their dinner." Options

[HakunaMatata]

-Hotel Rwanda

I'm so sure that I completely slaughtered that quote from Hotel Rwanda, but I'm pretty sure I got the essence. In the scene, they are watching the video they had made of the violence and killings occuring butween the Hutus and the Tutsis. Don Cheadle's character is sure that broadcasting the video in America will cause change in Rwanda; but alas, change is slow to happen when the poor, not the rich, are suffering.

What have you done to end suffering in this world? How have you made the world a better place?

[*Azarel*]

That's the problem with our generation--we're apathetic and jaded; nothing truly shocks us anymore, and even if it does, it's never for more than a couple moments. With the state of our nation the way it is today, we shouldn't be the way we are. People aren't aware of what's happening in the world. People don't care about anything except themselves, it seems. And it's sad.

I can't honestly say that I've done anything to make the world a better place or end suffering in the world. Sure, I've donated to this cause and that cause and to homeless people before, but I don't see that as actually doing anything because I haven't gone out of my way to ensure the world is improved at least in some aspect. I've been kind to people in general--strangers--and maybe that should count for something in this eye-for-an-eye world. But it probably doesn't.