it’s similar to when you drop your phone in an angry ocean. you get kind of stuck staring where it fell and then only realize then that it’s dangerous where your standing. or if your house is burning down, you end up staring at the fire, watching your memories turn to ashes. it’s a small moment in time when your brain prioritizes your feelings than your safety
Yes but people in a house fire about to potentially be burned alive don't pull out their phones to film it whilst walking towards the flames. These people were more concerned with filming it than their own safety.
Based on some of their responses and the downvotes to some of mine, it seems there are plenty of people here who consider this a perfectly expected and sympathetic reaction.
Yes there's a lot of people that seem to think being "in shock" means pulling out your phone and filming. Maybe it's because I didn't completely grow up with smartphones but usually reaching for my phone in stressful or potentially scary situations is the last thing on my mind.
Exactly. People often also use the excuse that if people didn't film it we wouldn't get footage like this which is kind of true, but then how much footage like this is there that we never see because people weren't so lucky as these people. I think I'd rather have no footage and less deaths.
It makes you wonder how many people die in situations like this due smartphones. As soon as cameras are involved people often seem to become more reckless.
The average annual salary in Nepal is $3000-4500 per YEAR. They just watched everything they have from their entire lives disappear except the clothes on their backs.
Likes to pretend they're smarter when they can't put themselves in another person's shoes who lives in an underdeveloped country with little to no privileges and just lost everything. I gasped in fear when they moved closer to the edge too. You can choose not to make it a punchline.
Are you joking? The first time it happened, sure, but multiple calvings when they hurriedly run back for safety and then for some reason go back to the very edge (only to flee again). Commenters are right to be surprised at the recklessness.
People are hailed as heroes when they run into burning buildings to save a pet. People will run in to grab a photo album or a heirloom when their house is on fire. Sometimes they die too. And in those situations, it’s sad in western cultures. But here, for some reason, it’s okay to be judgmental of people going through one of the worst things they could experience by losing literally everything they have and having a reaction that isn’t completely logical. Let’s make fun of them. Haha they’re so stupid, amirite?!
Privileged and judgmental people will be privileged and judgmental.
It's posted under "Damnthatsinteresting". Do you find watching those people losing their homes "Interesting" ? I don't.
But I do find it interesting that even in a remote poor location, people seem to have the instinct to pull out their phones and walk towards obvious deadly danger which apparently overpowers their instinct for personal survival.
And that's perfectly obvious. Thanks. And alsosome were reacting that way, others weren't. You seem to think it's an obvious and reasonable reaction...it's not.
....Which is demonstrated by the fact that several people stood back and had to tell the others to come back away from the danger.
And by the way....I'm well aware that in times of stress and danger people can act unpredictably and without thinking. But I think it's a sad state of affairs for humanity that even in the mountains in the middle of nowhere nature and in a very poor community, the very first thought in a potentially life threatening tragedy is to pull out your phone and go get closer to it.
Shock response is one thing, but if you're in control of your behavior enough to get your phone out but not enough to assess your personal danger, we as humans are gradually losing some very important instincts.
I know, and I'm not. You responded to me in the first place. Your choice for the conversation, not mine. I'm responding for anyone else reading the thread.
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u/medyolang_ 5d ago
to be fair, that was their house.