Earlier today I was seeing a movie and in one of the scenes, a police officer had gotten kidnapped by this serial killer and while her colleagues were investigating and searching for her, they had gone over to this house where they had seen a dead body of a lady.
But the body was facing away from them so they had both approached it slowly and just as they turned it around, they realized it wasn't their colleague and I remember one of the officers had blurted “Thank God” while giving a sign of relief.
Watching that scene, in as much as I could understand perfectly how they felt and why they had reacted the way they did, I couldn't help but think or ask the question, does reacting that way show a lack of empathy from the officers?
And the reason for this question is that, in as much as it wasn't their colleague who was dead, someone was indeed dead, and thanking God that it was someone else feels like it should be wrong, even though I probably would have reacted that way too.
The reason I ask this question is that things like this is what is hoping today, especially over here. Whenever we hear tragic news of something bad that happened fat away in the north or somewhere else, we pay little to no attention to it, or we end up taking no actions against it, because in our mind, as long as it's not happening over here, we're good.
Most people only see certain things as a problem when it affects them and their love ones directly. Anything other than that and they just don't care.
The ironic thing about that is that in most cases, all it takes is time, and before you know it, that issue eventually becomes your issue too. The only difference would be that by then, the problem would have been so tough that if it would have taken a little effort earlier to tackle it then, it would take a lot more now.