Apathy "Science may have found a cure for most evils: but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all--the apathy of human beings." Some might think that whenHelen Keller spoke those words, she was talking of some exotic disease that affects people in the slums. Or that she was speaking of an abnormality that can be found only in the mentally unstable. Those who believe those falsehoods are truly mistaken. She was …
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…of others. Apathy is a shameful part of humankind, but it's also one that mankind has learned to live with. Until people learn that the universe does not revolve around their little lives, they will continue to be indifferent to that which has no direct effect on them. Since humans are not likely to have such insights in the near future, apathy will be a somewhat shameful part of humanity for a very long time.