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As people, we feel our moral obligation weaken with physical as well as emotional distance from individuals in need. For example, you’re more likely to help someone dying of hunger at your feet than someone dying of hunger in another country. With the wide spread use of smart phones does this increase the reach of our moral obligations or does it reduce our altruism by disconnection? |
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"As people, we feel our moral obligation weaken with physical as well as emotional distance from individuals in need. For example, you’re more likely to help someone dying of hunger at your feet than someone dying of hunger in another country. With the wide spread use of smart phones does this increase the reach of our moral obligations or does it reduce our altruism by disconnection? "
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I think smartphones increase our capacity to ignore what and who is right under our noses while at the same time painting a far rosier picture of ourselves for our selected audience. |
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"I think smartphones increase our capacity to ignore what and who is right under our noses while at the same time painting a far rosier picture of ourselves for our selected audience. "
The disconnection by disconnection. It’s the very reason keyboard warriors are common place in our society. You only have to look at the first response to my question. |
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"I think smartphones increase our capacity to ignore what and who is right under our noses while at the same time painting a far rosier picture of ourselves for our selected audience.
The disconnection by disconnection. It’s the very reason keyboard warriors are common place in our society. You only have to look at the first response to my question. "
There is a strange similtaious improvement with internet/social media/smart phones.
A local collection for a sick child in need of treatment for example before it would have been a local fundraiser in the GAA hall is not a gofundme page.
It certainly lead to more passive social concern for eachother and those less fortunate |
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"I'm usually full of the horn on a Sunday morning 
Me too. I just have as much fun pumping the neurons as pumping the pudding.
Can we get pics of that please  "
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"I think smartphones increase our capacity to ignore what and who is right under our noses while at the same time painting a far rosier picture of ourselves for our selected audience.
The disconnection by disconnection. It’s the very reason keyboard warriors are common place in our society. You only have to look at the first response to my question.
There is a strange similtaious improvement with internet/social media/smart phones.
A local collection for a sick child in need of treatment for example before it would have been a local fundraiser in the GAA hall is not a gofundme page.
It certainly lead to more passive social concern for eachother and those less fortunate"
But it can also be a negative. If your concern and need to help others can be removed simply with the swipe of a screen surely that could promote egotism over altruism? In people easily swayed. |
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"As people, we feel our moral obligation weaken with physical as well as emotional distance from individuals in need. For example, you’re more likely to help someone dying of hunger at your feet than someone dying of hunger in another country. With the wide spread use of smart phones does this increase the reach of our moral obligations or does it reduce our altruism by disconnection? "
too heavy and deep for a wkend to think about this stuff ... I’m struggling to breath with a chest infection as it is
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"As people, we feel our moral obligation weaken with physical as well as emotional distance from individuals in need. For example, you’re more likely to help someone dying of hunger at your feet than someone dying of hunger in another country. With the wide spread use of smart phones does this increase the reach of our moral obligations or does it reduce our altruism by disconnection? "
I think it depends on a variety of things. If the media is pushing one agenda it may be easier for people to help even if hundreds of miles away. I often add my voice to campaigns online with some positive results.
But I always remember how devastated I felt when my first real love left me - I could barely get through the each day - yet children starving in a war zone with their parents blown to pieces didn’t efffect me at all. All well before smart phones existed. |
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"As people, we feel our moral obligation weaken with physical as well as emotional distance from individuals in need. For example, you’re more likely to help someone dying of hunger at your feet than someone dying of hunger in another country. With the wide spread use of smart phones does this increase the reach of our moral obligations or does it reduce our altruism by disconnection? too heavy and deep for a wkend to think about this stuff ... I’m struggling to breath with a chest infection as it is "
Snap....ish. Crashed on the sofa watching the Hobbit while fabbing on the phone and building a website on the laptop all the while dying slowly of man flu (swine flu as the media calls it). |
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I think its mucch broader, we are all familiar with the idea of charity begins at home. We have a better understanding of how to improve the situation locally, distance increases uncertainty, and so the expected returns are higher if we donate towards local causes.. |
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"As people, we feel our moral obligation weaken with physical as well as emotional distance from individuals in need. For example, you’re more likely to help someone dying of hunger at your feet than someone dying of hunger in another country. With the wide spread use of smart phones does this increase the reach of our moral obligations or does it reduce our altruism by disconnection?
I’ll have whatever you’re smoking "
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"As people, we feel our moral obligation weaken with physical as well as emotional distance from individuals in need. For example, you’re more likely to help someone dying of hunger at your feet than someone dying of hunger in another country. With the wide spread use of smart phones does this increase the reach of our moral obligations or does it reduce our altruism by disconnection? "
Hi OP. Interesting question. I think mobile phones have the ability to exaggerate things. In this instance my hypothesis is this. We all use the functions of a mobile phone in different ways. Those who are more morally empathetic, lets say, will use their phones to bring themselves mentally closer to their interests. So they will find themselves more involved and will have a closer feeling to the issues.
Whereas, those of us that are not as empathetic will use the functions of their devices for other things. Which has the opposite affect on this group. They will find themselves, mentally, further away from the issue. As their time is taken away from traditional media and replaced with other interests. Of which could be the polar opposite and can effectively isolate that kind of story away from the user.
They are my Sunday thoughts lol.
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"As people, we feel our moral obligation weaken with physical as well as emotional distance from individuals in need. For example, you’re more likely to help someone dying of hunger at your feet than someone dying of hunger in another country. With the wide spread use of smart phones does this increase the reach of our moral obligations or does it reduce our altruism by disconnection? too heavy and deep for a wkend to think about this stuff ... I’m struggling to breath with a chest infection as it is
Snap....ish. Crashed on the sofa watching the Hobbit while fabbing on the phone and building a website on the laptop all the while dying slowly of man flu (swine flu as the media calls it). "
I feel your pain like you I’m crashed on sofa , feeling sorry for myself ... but also perving on fab  |
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"I think smartphones increase our capacity to ignore what and who is right under our noses while at the same time painting a far rosier picture of ourselves for our selected audience. "
Really agree with you on this .. while i love my social media i do feel i was better in tune with news and politics before the advent of the smart phone. We are (me included) obsessed with social media and looking at the world through a screen. |
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"I think smartphones increase our capacity to ignore what and who is right under our noses while at the same time painting a far rosier picture of ourselves for our selected audience.
Really agree with you on this .. while i love my social media i do feel i was better in tune with news and politics before the advent of the smart phone. We are (me included) obsessed with social media and looking at the world through a screen. "
Thanks to cookies we only get to see what google thinks we need to see. It’s the very reason I use TOR as a browser. |
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"As people, we feel our moral obligation weaken with physical as well as emotional distance from individuals in need. For example, you’re more likely to help someone dying of hunger at your feet than someone dying of hunger in another country. With the wide spread use of smart phones does this increase the reach of our moral obligations or does it reduce our altruism by disconnection? "
The constant relentless torrent of news and information requires some of us to be discerning about what causes or issues to support or engage with and what to swipe past..if we didn't.. wouldn't we totally lose our marbles from the emotional cost? I would anyway! |
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"I think smartphones increase our capacity to ignore what and who is right under our noses while at the same time painting a far rosier picture of ourselves for our selected audience.
The disconnection by disconnection. It’s the very reason keyboard warriors are common place in our society. You only have to look at the first response to my question.
There is a strange similtaious improvement with internet/social media/smart phones.
A local collection for a sick child in need of treatment for example before it would have been a local fundraiser in the GAA hall is not a gofundme page.
It certainly lead to more passive social concern for eachother and those less fortunate
But it can also be a negative. If your concern and need to help others can be removed simply with the swipe of a screen surely that could promote egotism over altruism? In people easily swayed. "
I agree.
But like all technical progress we as people and our world around us adapts to it.
I still think human nature in those that havr always care about others will still shine through though.
I have been involved in one or twp community groups which have more volenteers now that when I would have started (which was pre smart phone) |
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It's my number one gripe with left leaning politics, prioritising minor local issues over much worse international issues.
People are people wherever they live.
A "Homeless" crisis of people living in hotels....my heart bleeds. |
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