Russia-Ukraine Invasion
Russia-Ukraine Invasion
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- Nairn8
Just saw footage of a toddler being pulled out of rubble in Ukraine, limp and most likely dead, despite efforts to revive.
I instantly - and I mean instantly - started blubbing.
Having a kid really does flick a switch in your brain.
- would be interresting if their is some empirical data around that gives a view if u get more affected by horrors of this scale if you have children ..neverscared
- laterally, whether fathers are more likely to go to war if they think it'll help give their partner and kids a better chance of survival.Nairn
- I imagine there's a strong genetic basis for increased emotion in the face of a mortal threat, where useful.Nairn
- I don't have any children and I feel the same way when I see kids die.utopian
- I try and avoid watching anything like that now. Doesn't do you any good to see that and it ends up haunting you.PhanLo
- Yeah, soz, I didn't mean to suggest I'm somehow more emotionally worthy than peeps without kids. I just couldn't help but imagine it could be my kid is all.Nairn
- Narin, I have to say, that was a relatively cunty thing to say. Parenthood doesn't confer special empathetic powers those of us who aren't parents don't have.Continuity
- I don't think there isn't a non-parent among us who isn't deeply affected by the images of dead children we've seen so far, myself included.Continuity
- I'm remembering the horrific images of the two young parents bringing their little girl into a hospital after a bombardment a couple of weeks ago.Continuity
- She didn't make it. And the anguish of the parents was so awful. Haunting.
I'm a bit disappointed in you, mate.Continuity - I've felt utterly horrid watching shit about kids from Syria prior to my kid, but I never burst out crying in a pico-second of seeing it. THAT is what I mean.Nairn
- I'm talking about me here.
As always.Nairn - Don't call me mate. I'm not English.Nairn
- Also, having a kid, physiologically absolutely fucking does confer 'special empathetic powers'. Until u have a kid, u absolutely do not understand.Nairn
- Unless you had young siblings or cousins or whatever around you as you grew up. As I grew up, I didn't, so whatever phermonal/ hormonal shit works its thing, ..Nairn
- i did not have. Where you're concerned, I was, and mostly am, exctly where you are but 4 years ago. There's just an additional nuance which I don't really likeNairn
- Like, I'm laying my heart and my new found weakness out for you here, you cunt, and you chide me for it?Nairn
- Just kidding, I don't give a fuck.Nairn
- Sigh.Continuity
- Yeah sickening, and all you see on Twitter is posts claiming Ukraine is racist because they weren’t letting Indian and African students on trains first._niko
- First before Ukrainian women and children. These children that stayed behind and are now dead. Better dead than non-woke I guess._niko
- I teared up at just seeing a family fleeing and the little girl had the same teddy my wee boy has.microkorg
- @Nairn, I understand your emotions are confusing you. but it's because they're white. You should come to terms with it.Khurram
- plot twist! naim's kid is actually brown.pango
- lolfadein11
- to be fair to Nairn I know what he means, I started crying at anything involving harm to kids after becoming a parent, it was upsetting before but way worsefadein11
- when you imagine your own in those situs. He clearly meant no offense.fadein11
- I noticed a difference in myself becoming far more emotional and empathetic when confronted with this type of thing after becoming a parent. No doubt.monospaced
- agree. i got no kids. completely dead inside. its really obvious when you see my eyes. they're just dead.pango
- I can only imagine Trump, the beloved father of four....maybe five or six soulless children, how he must feel to see children blown up by his comrade Putin.utopian
- I definitely turned soft when i got my first kid, squeezed a tear in interstellar when mr alrightalrightalrigh... realizes the daughter is older than himArchitectofFate
- maybe its from the desaster of covid the last years that everybody got more emtional.. even to the point of inversion into madness like it happend to pootinneverscared
- Nairn never implied that if you don't have kids you are heartless. But for many of us — or most — having a kid certainly does make the impact feel greater.monospaced
- On a related note, I didn't know I could love something this much until I had a child. It's not that I didn't love before, but the new love is more intense.monospaced
- Naim didn't imply that. I was just saying my dead inside.
I kid I kid lolpango - He's speaking the truth, and it's probably biological, but after having kids there's definitely an increase in emotional response related to these things.monospaced
- i hope you're not still talking to me. wasn't being serious at all.pango
- Probably that child-hater, Continuity.Nairn
- I'm also talking to Nairn, because I relate.monospaced
- *fist bumpNairn