Apathy and Belief: Part A

Why is it that people have a tendency to make excuses to do nothing? If people are faced with the question to do something about people in another country who are dying of hunger, they talk about how their support might not get to the people in need. How they will starve anyways. They don’t look into it to see if their premise is true, to see if there is a better way. There are enough people in this world who react to plight in apathy. They react to the needy with indifference. We don’t need people who make excuses to remain cold. Instead, people need to look at a broken system and figure out a way to make it work. Take action and make it better. Those who complain about the lack of a good way to help are those who should make that bridge.

There is a movie about a couple of Irish vigilantes in America who turn on the local mafia and start assassinating the leaders. In the beginning of the movie, a priest puts it right. At a funeral he talks about a person who was gunned down by the mafia, and at the moment of their death cried out to God. He says that often the first question people ask themselves is, “why did God let that happen?” But, he says that the question people should really ask themselves is “why didn’t anyone else do anything?” He says that often the biggest killer is apathy.

So I say it again…there are enough people who do nothing. There are enough apathetic people in this world to kill a multitude, who have killed multitudes. Often people think that they are powerless to do something. They believe that they do not have the means or the knowledge to help people or to create a way to help people. However, all too often the only thing that is holding them back is their belief, or lack thereof. Apathy is not only a passage that leads to death, but also the point at which they become defeated.