Indifference is the highest cruelty.
M. Wilson
The worst thing in our world is indifference, indifference and cruelty. Sometimes you look around and involuntarily ask the question: “Where is this world going?” Who will answer this question for me? Why is there so much cruelty and indifference in our world? Visiting various sites, reading people's comments, I am increasingly surprised and horrified at how quickly our society is degrading.
A. Chekhov said: “Indifference is paralysis of the soul, premature death.” People are indifferent to what is happening around them, they just laugh and mock people who have any problems. Let's take, for example, people who are seriously ill, tell me, how can you laugh and mock them? I myself witnessed one such case when teenagers, not children, seemingly already adults, doing everything consciously and, as they say, responsible for their actions, bullied a guy with cerebral palsy in every possible way. They did not pay attention to any attempts on my part to explain to them that this could not be done. Tell me, why are there so many heartless and cruel people in the world? How do their parents raise them so that instead of understanding people capable of compassion, they grow up to be, excuse the expression, such scumbags?
These teenagers forced him to chase them, and he, not realizing that they were just mocking him, tried to catch up with them, which naturally he failed. He believed that they were playing with him, he trusted them, and they... without a drop of compassion, continued their mocking games. What particularly hurt me and was engraved in my memory was the moment when this boy, a child (yes, he really was a child, because he believed people, without the slightest doubt in the purity and sincerity of their actions), during lunch, took his portion , headed towards the table, and at that moment another teenager, older than him, passing by, pushed him and touched him so that this boy dropped his portion from his hands onto the floor, for which, of course, the looking nurses began to shout at him. They called him clumsy, said that his hands grew from the wrong place, everyone laughed at him. You should have seen his face at that moment, there was so much pain, resentment, despair in his eyes that it was impossible to remain indifferent to it. He cried!!! It was at this moment that it was clear that he could no longer restrain himself, he no longer laughed or smiled, as at that moment when he believed that the teenagers were just playing with him, and I don’t think that at that moment he understood, who was really at fault for dropping the plate. I think he only blamed himself for what happened.
People, come to your senses! What are you doing? Where it leads? This is the natural degradation of society, don’t you understand that? Try to put yourself in the shoes of these people, and what would happen if they mocked or laughed at you like that? I don't think it would be good for you. They are the same people, but, unfortunately, few people will really be imbued with my appeal and share my resentment for the fact that in our world there really are a lot of cruel, indifferent people and, unfortunately, their number is increasing every day.

God will punish us for bad things, and the devil will punish us for good things. And both are for indifference.

There is no more dangerous person than a person who is alien to humanity, who is indifferent to the fate of his native country, to the fate of his neighbor.

Any emotions are better than indifference!

Indifference is the root of all evil in the world! This is tacit consent to any atrocities.

People hear and see things that are not intended for the ears and eyes of others; but they go blind and deaf when someone calls for help...

To forgive once is generosity! Forgiving a hundred times is indifference!

I don't care at all about those who don't like me. But I don't give a damn about those who care about me.

Unworn sayings about indifference

People are naturally lazy; but a passionate desire for work is the first fruit of a well-ordered society; and if the people again fall into a state of laziness and indifference, then this is again due to the injustice of this same society, which no longer gives labor the value it deserves.

Seasoned unworn statements about indifference

Worldly evil is covered in the darkness of indifference and self-interest.

When tears flow down in streams and their diamonds fly into the wind, you suddenly shout: “Help!” in, people will pass by and not notice... And when you, swallowing the insult, quietly say: “Goats,” barely audible, they will turn around, look, see, come up and hit you right in the drawbar...

A woman can forgive betrayal, but not indifference...

To be honest, I don’t even know what I feel more indifference to - to the appearance of the things around me or to the opinions of the citizens around me...

And you had it so that you were waiting for him, delirious... And then he calls and comes to you, and you understand that you no longer need it...

The worst thing is indifference... Even when you swear, you get angry, it’s still some kind of emotion. But when you no longer care, then you should think...

And how many times have we passed by an outstretched hand, pleading eyes... And, turning away, smiling crookedly, we mutter curses every time. We put our own troubles above everyone else, we only feel sorry for ourselves in this life... You will think that somewhere there are disabled people without food, without clothing, without shelter... But if for a moment we throw away the smoke of our selfish arrogance, suddenly the quiet beating of our hearts can be heard : “Don’t judge, you won’t be judged!”

When a person hurts someone who is no longer hurt, then he himself becomes hurt.

Everyone understands that initially relationships are largely built on the principle - what comes around comes around. But sometimes it seems that the relationship has already been established, even if it’s not friendship forever, but still... And then comes an offensive clarity - politeness, just politeness... And they talk to you solely because of and after " Ouch." And you’ll think about whether it’s worth yelling... And you’ll stop mid-sentence...

Villainous unworn sayings about indifference

Indifference is the highest cruelty.

What is foreign is only that which is indifferent to us, what we force ourselves to do and what we are internally indifferent to. From this point of view, many national slogans, domestic products and home-grown ideas seem to be the fruit of foreign influence.

Condescension towards evil very closely borders on indifference to good.

The worst crime we can commit against people is not to hate them, but to treat them with indifference. This is the essence of inhumanity.

In love, the one who loves less is always stronger, and perhaps even stronger is the one who does not love at all, but only allows himself to be loved. Passion never has power, it only comes from calculation.

No matter how much life hit me (with a stick in the forehead or with a face on the table), I never had the chance to acquire a crust of cynicism and thorns of rudeness, and I still can’t acquire one more detail - indifference, it’s not built into me...

If people continue to close their eyes to everything, there will come times when they will not be able to open them.

We live without thinking, we sin, we don’t care about our neighbor’s misfortune, we rush to betray our friends... Is there enough room for everyone in hell?

Indifference is prudence. Don't move - this is your salvation. Play dead and you won't be killed. This is what the wisdom of the insect comes down to.

This awkward moment when you don’t write to a person to see when he will remember you, but he never writes again.

It is precisely when people are especially eager to throw off the burden of their own misfortunes that they are least concerned about how to alleviate the lot of their neighbor.

True unworn sayings about indifference

Indifference said about Loneliness: “The reason is I... But there is also Soullessness.”

I'm going to die here now. I will die from your indifference and... Hey, somebody talk to me! You hear?

How can I express your indifference? In the decebels of your silence? In the kilometers you haven't traveled to meet me? In the moments of your soullessness, which became for me hours of feeling alone next to you?..

What can you feel for someone who has killed all desire to love in you? Only what he deserved was indifference.

If a kingdom rots, everything helps it rot. Let the majority simply connive - what, consider them not involved? I will consider an indifferent person to be a murderer who, seeing a child drowning in a puddle, does not try to save him.

Indifference is the silence of the soul.

Emotions are worth painting... a canvas of indifference.

The problem of humanity is indifference...

Man of the 21st century. He will take pity on, warm and feed a stray animal, but indifferently pass by his human. May animal activists forgive me...

The eerie emptiness of her eyes is carefully outlined with mascara.

Whatever masks you wear at the Theater of Life - do not be indifferent!

When we loved, I was the happiest girl in the world! Even when hatred sparked between us, I kept thinking that everything could be fixed and turned back. But when my mood became indifferent, it completely killed all my desires...

Daring unworn statements about indifference

I am afraid of the indifferent like the plague... I am afraid of the sinless. Gladenkikh. Sliding. Silent. And always fake. Don't you dare let them into your homes.

An indifferent person is the same as soulless!

Rest assured, if, God forbid, you happen to fall off a mountain or drown in the sea, the first person you see will not be Baywatch. No no. Journalists will be the first to lend a microphone or video camera instead of a helping hand. They will make a kind of compassionate face and fill their eyes with false tears in order to ask you a single question: “Tell the TV viewers how you feel when you are on the verge of death? Yes, and please, in short, we are live, we don’t have much time.” .

Don't be indifferent to other people's problems. No one guarantees that these problems will not affect you one day...

When everyone sneezes at each other, this is the worst epidemic.

What’s good about an indifferent person is that he minds his own business!

For religion there is nothing worse than indifference, because indifference is a step towards atheism.

Women are deeply indifferent to collecting stamps, reading newspapers, talking about cameras and the state of the economy. This, apparently, speaks of their unconditional superiority over us. Fortunately, they are deeply indifferent to our other activities.

"No one owes nothing to nobody!" - a simple barbaric saying going over the heads...

A man who died from an epileptic attack in the center of Irkutsk. A schoolgirl swallowing pills in full view of passers-by on the playground. Homeless people who fell asleep in the cold and never woke up again. The theme of people’s indifference and the transformation of part of society into an amorphous mass is more relevant than ever for Russia. An AN correspondent tried to figure out why people “switch off” their hearts.

“People call an ambulance without first even figuring out what happened to the person. One day we arrived at the stadium, where, as we were told, there was an unconscious man. It turned out that the guest worker simply lay down to sleep in the shade.”

Wedding Palace. Perhaps the most contrasting place in Irkutsk. Brides in cake dresses, doves soaring towards the clouds, champagne flowing in the river - all this somehow absurdly combines with beggars diligently looking for coins among the rose petals. During one of the ceremonies I attended, amid another protracted “Bitter!” A homeless woman falls headfirst with relish. Most people try to delicately avert their eyes “so as not to spoil their holiday,” and especially compassionate people and just onlookers from various weddings flock to a tight circle around the old woman. It so happened that in the general confusion and confusion, only my husband and I took a specific action - they called an ambulance. And while the rest of the guests at the wedding to which we were invited were already raising another glass to the newlyweds, we were waiting for the doctors - judging by the woman’s dragging gait, she had a broken leg and, possibly, other injuries. Our acquaintances at the wedding were divided into two camps: some perceived our action nervously or with a bit of irony (“Are you sure you came to the wedding?”, “Oh, you’re interfering with grandma’s work - how many kopecks will she not collect through your fault!”), others, on the contrary , showed sincere concern about the woman’s condition.

Half an hour later, the long-awaited ambulance arrived, and its employee began to examine the victim. The fallen old woman did not behave quite adequately, and answered “No” to almost all the nurse’s questions. When the orderlies began to load her onto the gurney, she made noise and even offered a little resistance. To be honest, at that moment there were ambivalent feelings - maybe it wasn’t worth it?

There must be a middle in everything. Even in a civilian position

“Our society has a civic position, but it’s directed a little in the wrong direction,” comments an ambulance worker (let’s call him Alexey). - Often people call an ambulance not out of compassion, but out of a desire to eliminate the “body” from their territory - the entrance, the playground. One song perfectly reveals this reality: “Two organisms are sleeping on the lawn. A kind passer-by called an ambulance. Drunk passers-by cannot see. I should punch them in the face, these passers-by!” I also noticed that many people call an ambulance without first even really understanding what happened to the person. There was a case when we arrived at the stadium, where, as we were told, there was an unconscious man. It turned out that the guest worker simply lay down to sleep in the shade. Often, elementary disgust prevents the population from approaching a person whose health is in doubt and humanly asking if everything is okay.

Alexey adds that such false calls take up too much time from the ambulance, and because of this, crews, unfortunately, do not always have time to arrive on time to those who really need help. That is why even in the manifestation of a civic position there must be a golden mean.

If earlier in the ambulance there was a sorting of calls (in the control room, a doctor and two paramedics found out the details of calls over the phone, sometimes they could simply give advice to the patient), but now the team is obliged to respond to every call. And this is despite the general trend of decreasing the number of brigades and increasing population. “There used to be a standard - one brigade per thousand people,” says Alexey. “Currently, there are only nine brigades in such microdistricts as Sverdlovsky, Universitetsky, Raduzhny, Yubileiny, the areas up to the Irkutny Bridge, plus nearby gardening areas.”

Another problem is that there are no clear regulations on what to do with people without permanent residence and intoxicated. “In order to hospitalize such individuals, certain indications are needed. The poison control center only treats alcoholics in a state of severe intoxication - when the person is already unconscious. If a drunk can give his name and address, neither toxicologists nor psychiatrists will take him in. And if the poor fellow does not have any chronic diseases, then there is no reason for hospitalization in other hospitals. Therefore, sometimes you have to pull the diagnosis by the ear, just not to leave a person on the street. In addition, ambulances are now prohibited from transporting patients to their homes (yes, many drunks and “homeless people,” oddly enough, have apartments), which could protect them from injuries and frostbite,” explained Alexey.

One hundred “likes” or zero real help

With the advent of technological means, many people have a reflex - at the slightest hint that something extraordinary is about to happen, they take out a mobile device from their pocket, rather than call an ambulance or the police.

“Quite recently I remember the following incident. On the central street of Irkutsk, a man tried to set fire to the office of a company. By the time the police crew arrived, the man was near a multi-story building. I accidentally raised my head and was amazed - from the upper floors about 50 people were recording what was happening on mobile phone cameras. Moreover, these were not teenagers, but adequate adults who worked there,” says German Bratchikov, head of the criminal investigation department of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs for the city of Irkutsk. - Anonymous activity, when people post a video on the Internet without a signature, is now very popular. Perhaps there is some kind of psychological explanation for this - the desire to feel involved in something important, but, in my opinion, most often it is some kind of herd feeling.”

Another cost of modern technology is the “compassionate test” - various messages on the Internet calling for donating blood to some dying person or participating in fundraising for sick children. Fortunately, Russians have already experienced an influx of fraud on this basis; now people have become more vigilant, distrustful and, perhaps, even more callous. A person, remembering the negative experience when the last money was withdrawn from the phone, will no longer be as receptive to requests for help as before. At the same time, the very format of the call for concern fosters a certain passivity in society: real actions (for example, transferring money or donating blood) are replaced by virtual ones - numerous “likes” and “reposts”.

The head of the Volunteer-Irkutsk search and rescue team, Vladimir Kharitonov, admits that the Internet these days has generally become a spontaneous platform for various kinds of social and volunteer projects. However, according to Vladimir, despite the visible activity of citizens, only a few are ready to participate in volunteer projects: “The people respond very poorly. When two years ago people began to disappear en masse in our city, Irkutsk residents became more active - about 2.5 thousand people applied to participate in our volunteer movement. Now, no more than 10 people actually work in the detachment. Although the problem of missing persons remains one of the most acute in Irkutsk. According to my observations, relatives of missing people experience their grief a little easier when they see how many volunteers are helping them. The outcome of many of the cases we work with is tragic, but we never stop losing faith in people and universal justice.”

Human society has been constantly and intensively developing for many centuries. One era gives way to another, progress in all spheres of activity has raised man to the pedestal of the dominant species on planet Earth.

One thing is bad: everything changes on the path of progress, but no one, with all their aspirations, strengths and capabilities, could either ban, overcome or abolish cruelty. This character trait, like many others, manifests itself in different situations, changing a person to unpredictable consequences.

What is cruelty?

Cruelty is selfish selfishness, envy, hatred and malice towards other people, towards life and towards oneself. This is the result of a lack of success in achieving one’s own goals and objectives with intentional or accidental harm to everything around.

It's no secret: what goes around comes around - cruelty begets cruelty. Causing harm to everything around in order to gain benefit for themselves, people do not think about the consequences that will not take long to arrive.

Forms of cruelty

Cruelty has different forms of manifestation: inflicting physical pain on a living being without any pity or compassion, offensive words, all kinds of actions and even inaction, and often unhealthy fantasies. She finds a loophole in straightforwardness and stubbornness, in mockery and deceit, in anger and unfriendliness, in intolerance for the mistakes of others.

The worst thing is when cruelty brings moral or physical pleasure. This is already sadism. Moreover, people, animals, plants, buildings, monuments, transport, places of leisure, etc. suffer from the harmful consequences.

Reasons for cruelty

People are not born cruel. In society there have always been norms of behavior, ethics and morality, on the border of which cruelty lay dormant. Abusive people become abusive for many reasons:

1. High or low self-esteem. Dissatisfaction with life and yourself.
2. The concepts of morality and morality have lost their power.
3. Self-affirmation in a distorted form as a misunderstanding of methods of self-preservation.
4. Childhood fears that persist into adulthood among people who faced indifference, cruel punishments and a strict upbringing regime in childhood.
5. Demonstration of one's greatness and power through humiliating, mocking words, oppression and suppression, violence, murder. Sadism is the highest form of cruelty.
6. Pride and, as a result, a feeling of revenge.
7. Hiding personal complexes due to inferiority and weakness.
8. Manifestation of inhumanity in inaction, taking pleasure in it, deliberate refusal to help.

Acceptable Cruelty

To better understand what cruelty is, we need to consider it as a reaction to intolerable circumstances that threaten human existence. And the more fierce they are, the more the response will go off scale.

The psychology of cruelty is a fine line on which good and evil are balanced. Is it possible to be a harmless, sympathetic, compliant person for everyone if you are faced with meanness, injustice, humiliation and insults? I think no. But the cruel are feared, shunned, and sometimes even respected.

A tough person is a strong personality. Kindness cannot be opposed to cruelty if human life depends on it. Therefore, cruelty should be developed not for violence, but in order to resist it.

Why do cruel people exist? Man by nature is a predator. If you look back at the whole history, you can’t count the wars with the most brutal destruction of all living things. Therefore, in any developed society, laws are necessary, the violation of which is fraught with severe punishment. Cruelty is an integral part of life, which means you need to learn to live and fight with it, and look for new models of behavior.

Examples of cruelty in everyday life

Every person has at least once asked what is also cruelty, examples of which are found all the time. All media are simply replete with reports of outrages and violence. Television, radio, the press, the Internet, fiction and scientific literature, history textbooks - everywhere you can encounter examples of cruelty.

Any historical social system, kings, serfdom, wars, repressions - everything is permeated with cruelty. The cult of cruelty in religions, sacrifice, aggression, intimidation, abuse of power, sky-high crime rates and impunity, terrorism are also cruelty.

In family life, examples of cruelty include suppression of will, energy vampirism, creation of obstacles in the realization of intellectual, creative and professional opportunities, all kinds of prohibitions in planning offspring, budget, leisure, etc.

And, of course, cruelty to animals is an abyss from which it is impossible to get out. If a person is capable of offending a dumb creature, then it is difficult to call him a person.

What is cruelty in the children's world

Very often, cruelty manifests itself in children who are out of control. Child cruelty is primarily associated with unfavorable family relationships. Lack of respect between family members and frequent quarrels in the presence of children reduce the level of trust in parents, which results in anger and aggression in the child.

Attention, care, patience, and frankness will help protect children from cruelty. A personal role model is very important. The absence of cruelty on the part of parents towards children and people around them will raise respect in the family to the proper level. Seeing and appreciating a child’s personality, taking his opinions and interests into account, trying to see the world through his eyes is the key to success in the age-old problem of fathers and children.

How to overcome cruelty?

Knowing and understanding what cruelty is, you can take certain measures to protect yourself from it. Among them are simple methods and work on yourself:

1. If you realize that cruelty is evil, then this is the first step towards solving the issue of getting rid of it.
2. It is necessary to love yourself, people and the whole world around you, thereby getting rid of internal fears.
3. You need to give to the world what you yourself want to receive: mercy, compassion, kindness.
4. Increasing self-esteem, the desire for success, and social recognition is one of the effective ways to combat cruelty.
5. Limiting your social circle. Surrounded by kind and decent people, the world becomes cleaner.

Thus, cruelty is caused by both external and internal factors that are ingrained in a person from childhood. We talked not only about our own ability to be cruel, but also about the very attitude of other people to such manifestations. Therefore, it is necessary to fight and prevent this character trait from childhood, instilling in the child kindness and mercy towards the people around him.