Funny you whine about irrationality while ignoring the very clear rational reason why Americans are outraged over government agents executing a random civilian in their own supposedly free country over what's happening in another country that is known for being violently oppressive.

We should be angry about both situations but most people truly don't give a fuck about the latter. It is not just the Iran situation though.

We make decisions all the time that result in immense amount of unnecessary suffering because of a total lack of rationality.

Our food consumption choices alone have created the objectively largest and most horrific engine of suffering in the history of this planet, all for the pleasure of our taste buds. The average person is directly responsible for this.

It is the irrationality and lack of empathy of the average person that bothers me. Unless you show them a video of protestors being massacred in Iran, or take them to a factory farm, they don't care. And even then, they often don't care. Why?

Suffering is roughly sortable and it is certainly within the power of most people to drive down the greatest sources of suffering, and pressure their government to do so when it is not directly within their power.

But people are irrational.

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