Okay, we all know that Steve Irwin died this week. It's been everywhere on the internet, television, etc., and I'm incredibly sad about it, but what I'm most sad about is the response from everyone on the internet, or people in general. They're all suggesting that Steve deserved what he got, and they're saying things like "go stingray!", and I've even heard that someone created an animation congratulating the stingray for 'a job well done'.
Has the majority of humanity become so callous that they can't even look beyond a television persona and see an actual human being? Steve Irwin had family and friends that loved him, and he was a good person that did good things for animals all over the world. I learned more from the show Crocodile Hunter than all my science classes combined. Steve Irwin shared his entire life and his love for conserving nature with everyone around the world. He didn't 'deserve what he got' just because he took a more extreme route for what he did. No good person deserves to die - ever.
Anne Frank said once "Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart." Well, I believe that she was wrong. Humanity is slowly losing its empathy towards others. Within the next generations, I feel that we'll all be a bunch of sociopaths with no care in the world other than anything that affects us directly, plainly, and obviously. There are politicians and celebrities saying we're all becoming more aware of the world around, saying that the awareness of global warming and the lack of natural resources is proof of that.
But maybe we should stop trying to save that two-hundred-year-old tree in the rain forest and start trying to save our souls.
Julia Dream · Tue Sep 05, 2006 @ 10:35pm · 2 Comments |