Don’t bother clicking the image. It’s not going to take you to the video. If you want to be entertained by it, there are places to do that. Here is not one of them.

Why This Video (and others like it) Need to Stop Being Shared NOW!

A Sad Example of The Pathetic and Disturbing Trend of Finding Amusement in Other People’s Misery


Do you recognize this? It’s from a video that was posted on Facebook on April 23, 2015. It’s a video of a man who is totally out of his mind — messed up on some type of drug.

To be honest, I’m sick of seeing it shared and I question the level of intelligence of those who do share it and find it ‘hilarious’. More importantly, I question whether or not they have any compassion or the capacity to value the inherit dignity of their fellow man. Reading the comments on the video just makes things worse.

What kind of barbaric lack of intelligence does a person have to have to find any amusement in the suffering of another human being? Yeah this is self-inflicted and the result of a dumb choice. But who of you is not guilty of self-inflicted humiliation because of stupid decisions? We ALL are. Fortunately for us, our stupidity is not put on public display for all to see.

Did this guy wake up one morning and decide he wanted to f*ck up his life?
No.


People mindlessly share this and find entertainment value from it without the slightest thought of what he might be suffering with. I mean could you imagine sitting down with this guy and hearing his life story? Maybe he was raped as a child. Maybe he was physically abused. Maybe he witnessed his father murder his mom. Who knows. But that’s the point. No one knows. Yet people are quite content with shaming and condemning him and treating him as less than human excrement. I guess in this self-proclaimed age of enlightenment I expect more from my fellow man.

People speak of losing hope in humanity because of videos like this. If I was to lose hope in humanity it would not be because drug addicts do things like this but because of the way the average ‘civilized’ person responds to things like this.

Here is a fellow human being that has probably suffered a lifetime of pain and misery who is likely so tormented and mentally tortured with self-hatred that hard drugs are the only relief next to suicide. Here is a guy who, if he could see himself and his life in a different light, could function well and be an incredible light and inspiration to others. Wouldn’t that be amazing? It happens all the time but these people cannot do it alone and for us to shame and condemn them certainly does not make matters any better or help them move toward recovery.

Could you imagine this being you? Think of it. 10,000,000+ people see you at your worst. You read the comments…
“What a piece of shit.”
“ Now that is a nut job .I would have given him a lovely wash down.”
“… needed this laugh.”
“Human garbage”

…and many many more

Chances are this guy already hates himself and hates his life as it is. Do you people honestly think that him seeing how many people think his misery and self-destruction is funny and the countless comments such as those above probably will make him ‘smarten up’? How stupid can YOU be?

There is only one thing that saves people from this type of self-destruction and that is hope. Think of that next time you decide to find someone’s misery humorous. You are part of the problem.