A pure case of Selective Empathy?
The motivation for writing this blog comes from a post recently shared by one of my friends as his WhatsApp Status. His status reads like this "If you feel anguished about the elephant killing in Kerala but you yourself love eating non-veg food just for your taste buds, then you are the part of the problem". I immediately replied to his status "So true". But later on, I gave it a thought and I changed my mind. In the aftermath of the incident of the elephant killing in Kerala , a lot of posts similar to this were shared across social media platforms such as WhatsApp, Facebook, and Instagram among many others. The main reason for sharing such posts could be to criticize people for their hypocrisy, make them feel guilty, and try to change their food consumption practices. Are people empathetic in one case ( Killing of the elephant) and they are not empathetic in other cases ( say, killing of chicken)? Yes, they are and they are in...