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There have also been some acts of violence recently that are terrible, besides the people overreacting from positions of power you mentioned, a few nuts are being seen as being more then they are, they are just a few nuts.
When thinking about 'whats going on' I am appalled and sickened by both acts of selfishness, and incidents of violence that not only cost lives, but sadden many good people around the world.
Individual acts of violence like the disgusting Holocaust Museum shooting, or the shooting of Tiller, or other bad events that happen, like the tasering events you showed, make the world seem to be a scary place.
But in truth, all of the things you posted, and even if you add the recent acts of violence that have occurred, encompass at most 20 people out of 6 billion. Even if you include people in radio, news, tv, politics, or with a megaphone, that spout distortions or try to deceive people, you still only have maybe 1000 out of 6 billion people.
The shooter of Tiller, and at the museum and people that advocate violence, are far fewer then people think, but that is what is seen on TV. And people that are crude or overreact when they have authority, are also fewer in real life, then we see on TV. There are good people on TV also, but when the ratio of good to bad on tv is compared to real life, it is out of perspective.
Back in the 1900's in a small prairie town in the Midwest, you could go years without ever seeing a person in a fight, you might go your entire life without seeing someone die from violence. Your perspective of life was 90% the experiences of people around you, and 10% from news, books, discussions, or sermons on events that occurred outside your experiences.
Today if one person gets attacked by a shark swimming in the ocean, every person that goes to the beach thinks about it like their are sharks in the waters off their own beach.
It is out of perspective.
Crazies, loons, racists, haters, extremists, people trapped in delusion and despair, exist, and they should be confined and if possible helped while at the same time protecting society from them. Just like events occur where some people in power overreact, or go over the line when dealing with criminals, but again this is out of perspective of the millions of interactions between authority and people.
The biggest problem I see is people unable to break the fact that when they see something on TV, their mind thinks it happened 5 feet away from them, and is a big part of their lives. If you watch all the bad things that occur day in and day out on TV, that is your world, even though the real world has far fewer of those things then shown in the image laden world of TV that leans to depravity and violence.
This does not mean we should not be informed, it means just like when a smear takes 30 seconds of a speech and tries to define an entire person by that 30 seconds. We should not let a few violent people, or a few bad decisions, define all people in society. We have to stop and force our minds to put it in perspective.
The sick twisted souls that do bad things, are not the majority, or even close to the majority in society, so we should not give them the majority of perspective when we think on society.
There are far more people working for justice, peace, love, and to alleviate suffering, then there are people that are bad. And as most people work for the better things, they also honor those of good, and better things that are done, while refusing to honor those that are bad.
Thinking society is bad can lead to despair, and can lead people to then justifying their own actions that are not what they think is best. And out of perspective views of society can make people think society is not as good as it is.
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