Things you feel guilty for not caring about
 

Not necessarily "not caring about" but at least "not interested in".

For me, its politics in general and history. I've never been interested in learning about the War. I know its incredibly important and I should take the time to learn more about it but I just don't feel compelled to.

Same goes for politics. I don't vote because I don't want to vote just for the sake of voting. I could research and all that, but, again, I just don't feel compelled to, even though I know I should.

Anyone else? Anything?

I guess animal rights and the fact that millions of people worldwide have terrible lives(Sub-Saharan Africa, etc).

I probably should feel more empathy in these kind of issues.

I was completely disinterested in history while in high school. It might have been becasue all we did was get lectured and have to copy badly handwritten notes from an overhead projector. In college I became more interested as I actually had to do projects pertaining to history and it was much more fun learning that way.

I don't feel guilty about anything I don't care about or am not interested in, I don't care.

One of them would be school in general. Even though I did fairly good in school, I never really liked school back then, and still don't. I felt cheated by school sometimes since it didn't seem to do much justice to my intelligence. There are times where I feel smart, but I was never able to keep straight A's even though there were classes I had that I just totally aced. Like when I took sequential math 3 in my junior year of high school. I never seemed to break a sweat maintaining an A average in that class the whole year. Then there are those subjects where I had to wrack my brain so hard that I thought it might explode.

Another one would be sports. I wasn't always the best at them, and I could never get into them when I'd watch them on TV. I couldn't get excited about someone making a home run or a touchdown or whatever. I was also on a track team for a little while, and I knew I wasn't the best. I wanted nothing more to just quit the team. So I commend, and have the utmost respect for people who love sports, whether they're watching them or playing them (as long as they're not complete douchebags about sports).

Sometimes I feel guilty for not caring about my family, especially my sister who I have a very strained relationship with.

Yeah, pretty much. If you feel guilty, you care.

Basically right on

I'm completely disinterested in the wars in the middle east. Every day you can see on the CNN homepage that people get constantly killed by car bombs and terrorist attacks there. EVERY SINGLE DAY.

Yet people fail to realize this has been gone on for the last 1000 years, its not just "new" that the Middle East is constantly killing each other over religion. It's just that now with the internet and videos we hear about this stuff more often.

They'll be killing each other in the Middle East for the next 100+ years too.

Yes, the thread title is self-contradictory. Perhaps it should have said, "Things You Don't Care About Even Though You Feel You Are Supposed To'.

Well, in that case, politics.

I don't feel guilty about my disinterest in politics. I actually feel pretty good about it because at least I'm not buying into the lies that the politicians always spew out and march to the beat of my own drum. I don't feel obligated to vote because it's a waste of time picking the lies that sound best when they're all just lies anyway. But, yeah, I know I should care about politics, but I just don't. Same goes for animal rights and the environment. I should care, but I just don't.

I understand. You get unhappy with who is in power, then a candidate appears who purports to be a reformer, and if said candidate gets into power, they turn out to be no reformer after all. Genuine reform politicians do exist, but they are exceedingly rare.

Yes, exactly. It just gets old when you hear people promise to change the world and then turn their back on the people who voted for them. Obama is a big example of that and how he lies about everything.

I admit that, being from Cook County, Illinois myself, that I never believed in him for a minute.

But other politicians I can name? There was a longtime Cook County sheriff who was finally voted out-but his replacement was a disappointment. And he was voted out and his replacement was a disappointment. After several tries, someone got in who was finally any good. As for the Cook County Board President, it was run by a longtime party hack who had to leave because he got very sick, and his son was even worse. He got voted out very easily by a woman purporting to be a reformer who promised to make things better-and we fell for it.

Another example was a Chicago alderman who, in an attempt to run for mayor, bragged loudly about what a man of integrity he was. Years later, he would wind up being sent to jail. :lol:

Well, Illinois has been known to be one of the crookedest states out there because of the politicians.

Yeah, its a bit of a contradiction. But you can feel guilty about not caring, without caring about the topic in question. You can feel guilty from a moral standpoint but still not care about the topic at hand. If that makes sense. Which i'm not even sure it does now that I just reread what I wrote lol

Nah, we know what you meant.

Some other things I don't care about: The news and holidays.

I never watch the news, sports, or follow politics. I pretty much have no idea what's going on in the world...

Maybe that's for the best, DN. What's going on in the world isn't always that good, though I do like when I can see some feel good stories. It's rare, but it's still awesome when they happen.