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Originally Posted by Long_Long_Name
So, kq... I'm genuinely asking this: how can you live a happy life if you think that any death is sad? I mean, people die all the time, all over the world, for so many reasons, if you think it's sad then... how can you live with knowing that people die all the time?
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I'm not one of those who is saddened by any and every death though. As I said above, the deaths of people I don't care for does not bother me. Call me a prick, but that's just how I am. The deaths of people I don't know and whom I just presume are good people I do feel sad for though. But again like I said above, because I'm not close to them I'm able to soon move on from that sad feeling.
I do prefer to skip over bad news though. Take for example those commercials on tv asking for foreign relief aid, I have to click off those right away because they just put me in a bad state and I don't wish to live my life constantly sad or angry. I don't think those commercials, nor pretty much any marketing that appeals to one's emotions, are fair. Some of us are too easily influenced by them and I don't think it's fair to take advantage of us. It actually turns me off from those organizations more than it turns me on to them.
So to summarize, sometimes you just need to ignore stuff.