Should you care?

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There's usually a reason to care. Right?

Do you  care? And if you do, what exactly is it that you do in fact care about? Is there a truly logical and reasonable excuse to care? And most importantly, why exactly should I care?

These questions really do plague us. Right?

Of course not. Because chances are, you haven't cared about caring much have you? But then again, what does it mean to care? To be considerate about one's welfare? Most probably. However, then again, why would it matter to you how one's welfare is? 

Compassion and consideration both are human traits, yes. Plus, they are what make us human too. Right?

Of course not. Compassion and empathy are qualities not limited to the human genus. Animals such as elephants show great signs of empathy, while dolphins show the utter lack of it; both equally conscious of themselves and their surroundings in their own respective ways.

However, mind-farts aside, we have to get to the real question here.

"Should you care?"

That sounds pretty easy right? You should care. Or at least, that's what everybody tells you. You've got to look a little deeper into "Care" and what it is.

Picture this: Some homeless rando sits on the side of the road. Do you help him or not?

Stop lying. You wouldn't even spare a glance, let alone do something good for humanity. Yet some of you individuals act like saints with the utmost arrogance of some kind of ethically superior being of justice and righteousness.

Yours truly, you wouldn't care less. Some people might, and that might be you. If you are, good for you. But we majority couldn't care less.

Sure, helping the homeless rando might help him feed himself for a day and maybe do something good for humanity; but; did you have a truly logical reason to help the guy? If, let's say, the rando protects you from some kinda terrorist or something remembering your good deed.

Now THAT would be logical. Helping the rando would be the good call. But other than that, you never truly have rock-hard logic to do so. That being said, compassion in itself isn't stupid. In fact, quite the contrary.

It is said that compassion has evolutionary roots and it isn't some kinda human luxury. A racoon protecting her young or a random pigeon guarding her eggs are examples of empathy, more specifically love. In other words, "To care".

Now, this is very cool. That's because we can tell that caring isn't necessarily stupid because in being compassion, one organism can guarantee that their offspring don't kick the bucket and instead kick. I dunno. Rocks.

Motherly love is an example of caring. Because of it's evolutionary roots, it has shown true logical explanation to exist. From this, we can conclude that compassion and logic aren't necessarily two sides of the same coin, but instead two adjacent stinks of the same fart. 

Now, love aside, caring sometimes sucks because it gives you an unnecessary burden at times. That definitely sounds like some kinda supervillan ideology and hey, maybe it is, but I just couldn't care.

Logistics is quite the funny thing. It's definitely the right thing to do and yet sometimes everybody will hate you for it because it's not compassionate; it'd show that you don't care.

Picture this:

America is doing America stuff in Iraq or something. And all of a sudden whoopsie daisies an American troop shows up right next to a Mosque to spread their ""democracy"" (excuse to steal oil). 

Now, seeing this, of course the Iraqi people will be mad. Seeing American tanks in their territory babbling about their ideologies is pretty infuriating. What's even more, they're casually disrespecting the Muslims, yeah? So the entirety of the people in the Mosque begin throwing rocks at the troops because they hate them. Of course.

Now, the logical thing to do is...............I dunno. Play "Free Bird" on the nearest device and blast the Mosque to bits with some kinda $10,000 missiles paid for by the impoverished population who would've used that money for food.

And them boom. Victory, right? Of course not.

If news goes around that America just did that would spark intense debate within the United Nations and you could bet an arm and a leg that China would use this excuse to poop on the American public. Maybe tag along Russia too. Countries together poop on other countries. That's a well-known fact.

Instead, the better thing to do is to just get outta there because it ain't worth it, to put it frankly.

Quite the long example. But it gives you a neat idea of how logistics and giving a damn work hand-in-hand.

Now let's get to another topic. Being stupid and caring at the same time. This is quite the deadly duo; because on one hand, you're stupid. That's just sad as is.

And to add insult to injury you're a caring individual too. That's like a wet matchstick trying to make other matchsticks glow. Not only are you useless but you're not trying to make revert that uselessness because you're too busy trying to make other useless failures try to revert their uselessness.

That'd be totally useless. You'd be useless. And the thing about humans is, nobody wants to be useless. After all, you're not useless, are you?

Quite the abrupt end, but I'd have to put this lil ol' thing to an end. You know why?

I just couldn't care less.