Is it wrong not to feel moral indignation?

[fakename]

Basically, if someone has seen or perceived a lot of bad stuff, then is it okay for them to become emotionally numb to them?

Then where does the incentive to act against evil come from? Well, it can come from the inspiration to do good, or it could come from the inspiration to avoid or limit evil but w/o a so-called concomitant disgust or shock.

After all, does the disgust of a doctor make him better, worse, or indifferent in his ability to treat diseases?

And again, all sin is a serious matter but how can we hate or be disgusted at something that happens ubiquitously? One can be disgusted by defecation but one is not wholly repulsed when it happens to you nor when you see that it happens to others.

 

[fakename]

Any answers?

 

[John21652]

Basically, if someone has seen or perceived a lot of bad stuff, then is it okay for them to become emotionally numb to them?

Then where does the incentive to act against evil come from? Well, it can come from the inspiration to do good, or it could come from the inspiration to avoid or limit evil but w/o a so-called concomitant disgust or shock.

After all, does the disgust of a doctor make him better, worse, or indifferent in his ability to treat diseases?

And again, all sin is a serious matter but how can we hate or be disgusted at something that happens ubiquitously? One can be disgusted by defecation but one is not wholly repulsed when it happens to you nor when you see that it happens to others.

I recently watched a TV program about the Nazi Concentration camps of WW2. A Polish prisoner of Auswitch, who was saved from the gas chamber by being selected to work on a gang clearing the dead bodies out of the chambers after each gassing, told how he used to physically gag when he was first asked to remove the dead bodies. He described how the people in the gas chamber died in the form of a human pyramid, as each attempted to clamber over others to get nearer the vent hole at the top during the gassing. He recounted how he had to use a lot of force to untangle the bodies, which were covered in vomit and excrement. He also stated how another man said to him that you can become used to anything after a while.

It is one thing to become innured to the physically repulsive, such as the sight of dead bodies pioled up in a gas chamber, but it is another thing all tegether to become innured to the moral wrongness associated with such acts. During the same TV program, it was shown how Himmler was given a demonstration of how the Nazi death squads went about the mass shootings of jews in pits. A witness recounted how Himmler was splattered with blood and brain matter and began to dry retch. Obviously, Himmler was innured to the moral wrongness of what he was driving, but he was still overcome by the physical assault on his senses. The man clearing out the gas chambers became physically accustomed to what he was witnessing, but never lost sight of the moral wrongness of what was transpiring.

If the assualt on one’s moral sensibilities is such that what is immoral begins to seem right, then obviously there will be no moral indignation. If there is no moral indignation, then that suggests there is no recognition that an act has a moral component, or else, like Himmler, that one’s moral compass is so selective as to think that the killing of certain humans is OK. Moral indignation will depend upon the moral system inculcated by a human. To feel absolutely no moral indignation at all would suggest that a person has no moral compass whatsoever, believing that there is no right or wrong in what is done or witnessed.

 

[fakename]

If the assualt on one’s moral sensibilities is such that what is immoral begins to seem right, then obviously there will be no moral indignation. If there is no moral indignation, then that suggests there is no recognition that an act has a moral component, or else, like Himmler, that one’s moral compass is so selective as to think that the killing of certain humans is OK. Moral indignation will depend upon the moral system inculcated by a human. To feel absolutely no moral indignation at all would suggest that a person has no moral compass whatsoever, believing that there is no right or wrong in what is done or witnessed.

I know how wrong something is, but unless the nazis are actually killing jews in front of me, I’m don’t feel angry that something wrong is happening -I don’t get “worked up” about it.

Is that bad, good, or neutral?