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"Psychic Numbing of Genocide"![]() Prof. Slovic covered the painful, thought-provoking subject on how good, caring people often become numbly indifferent to the plight of individuals who are "one of many" in a much greater problem. Why has the world shown little interest to really act effectively, too late in the genocides that took place in Rwanda, South Sudan, the Belgian Congo and even now in Syria? "There is no one reason," Prof. Slovic claims, but rather an amalgam of possibilities – "ranging from lack of leadership to cost, racism to distance, lack of compassion to diffusion of responsibility." Prof. Solvic's basic premise is – the more who die, the less we care. He points to the arithmetic of compassion that dulls the senses on overload, when the caring person loses sight of the individual among the masses of victims. What needs to be done? Slovic had a number of suggestions:
Prof. Paul Slovic was a guest of Prof. Ruth Beyth-Marom of the Open University's Department of Education and Psychology. |