Overcoming indifference

The Price of European Indifference

Dave Meslin The antidote to apathy

Similar examples of such indifferent cynicism abound.

At the heart of the crisis is a strong element of indifference.

The result of the failure is a generalized indifference and passivity in audiences.

But it seems that this apathy is beginning to lift.

Penalty Imprisonment for 25 years (in the case of recklessness imprisonment for 15 years).

We cannot be neutral or indifferent when other human beings are suffering.

Extreme poverty breeds apathy, not rebellion.

But he has quickly learned to view them with the attitude that they find hardest to endure indifference.

The first three are described as sins of omission, since the result is a failure to recall an idea, fact, or event.

They also demonstrate that individual States cannot be indifferent to the problems facing their neighbours.

The political apathy that characterizes today s Russia presents a serious challenge to the country s survival.

When I looked at my friends' faces, when I checked my social media feeds, all I could see was indifference.

Encouraged by this indifference, Armenians successfully committed historical crime and genocide against Azerbaijanis.

France was said to be to be a country mired in apathy and increasingly uninterested in politics.

Lenin and communism have passed away, but that cynical indifference to suffering when profits are involved remains.

With that vote, the international community began to eradicate the shameful indifference that accompanied the Holocaust, Rwanda, Srebrenica, Darfur, and too many similar catastrophes.

The Judicial Power could not remain indifferent to the changes and felt pressured to give them legal expression.

Perhaps this is one of the reasons why 15 years after the fall of Communism, we again witness political apathy.

Boredom begins to be very aversive and apathy becomes very negative you don't feel that you're doing anything, you don't use your skills, there's no challenge.

If European resentment is inevitable, some US leaders say, then the proper response is to shrug it off.

The global response to the horrors in Kenya in 2008 was a spectacular contrast to the indifference that greeted the butchery in Rwanda.

International political indifference and a sense of inertia have characterized the conduct of the international community, which has aggravated the civil war and allowed unabated human suffering and environmental destruction to continue in my country.

In Uganda, most of our successes have been attained in the face of opposition, indifference or distracting, superficial heckling by quite a number of our external partners.

In Europe, this apathy is often seen as a reaction to the slowdown of what once looked like an unending postwar economic boom.

Despite cynicism, apathy, frustration, despair, and violence, some Saudis still hope for the emergence of a prince on a white horse who will place the kingdom onto the path of reform.

We have maintained on several occasions in our region and elsewhere that the principle of non intervention in the domestic affairs of States must be associated with the idea of non indifference .

While nobody expects the mass violence of the 1990 s to recur, that does not justify diplomatic indifference and inaction.

Many euphemisms when writing about MURDERS resulting from domestic violence against women, the same indifference to (not) having 7N on the front page

. . . I remembered the indifference that people in the more developed parts of my own country also exhibit towards the broad human rights abuses inflicted in regions of Turkey they regard as unsafe and underdeveloped.

Such apathy makes my task as Russia's ombudsman, an office charged by the State Duma (parliament) with protecting political rights in Russia, difficult, if not impossible.

I felt embarrassed for them, until I remembered the indifference that people in the more developed parts of my own country also exhibit towards the broad human rights abuses inflicted in regions of Turkey they regard as unsafe and underdeveloped.

The international community must rouse itself from its comfortable inertia and stop regarding it as inevitable that refugees should be used as pawns in prolonged conflicts and have their basic rights and their dignity violated.

Are they still considered human? Nothing can excuse the seeming indifference displayed by our worldwide silence.

For the problems of anomie, apathy, and political charade are not Polish problems, but maladies that increasingly afflict democracies everywhere, and that urgently call for a restoring of faith in parties and politics.

The Chinese people, unsurprisingly, regard politics with a mixture of caution and dread. Public figures spend a lot of time and effort to avoid offending the Party, openly endorsing indifference as the foremost tool of survival.

Whether it is mutilations in Sierra Leone, genocide in Rwanda, ethnic cleansing in the Balkans or disappearances in Latin America, the parties to conflicts have acted with deliberate indifference to those conventions.

But neither Khrushchev, nor Mikhail Gorbachev, nor Boris Yeltsin were able to uproot Russia s stubborn culture of indifference and subordination, precisely because they insisted on top down change and expected that the Russian people would simply acquiesce en masse.

But I read this fact the other day, that one trillion seconds equals 32 thousand years, so if you think about that, the context, the casualness with which we talk about trillion dollar bailout here, and trillion there, we are stacking ourselves up for long term leverage.

But, while history is replete with murderous regimes applauded by cowed and deceived masses, the greater risk for democratic nations is that their citizens withdraw into apathy and short term thinking for immediate gratification.

I propose to you today that apathy as we think we know it doesn't actually exist, but rather, that people do care, but that we live in a world that actively discourages engagement by constantly putting obstacles and barriers in our way.

In the wake of Mittal s takeover of Arcelor, governments must address this gap in the law, as no society can afford to permit the economic system to continue its march toward indifference to the welfare and security of workers.

The indifference to such social disorder or social conflict risked communal and armed conflict such as those in Maluku, Central Sulawesi and West Kalimantan as well as armed conflict resulting from separatist movements as in Aceh and Papua.