There is a compelling case that recently occurred. Some tourists at the crash site TransAsia Airways flight number GE235 criticized many users of social media. National television stations also carried stories about them because they do not empathize for the calamity accident happened. With a background of rubber boats rescuers were still searching for the missing victims, they pose with a face gembira.
The same thing happened in front of the tail carcass Air Asia QZ8501 after the appointment last month. There are members of the police and military narcissistic photographed against a backdrop of the tail. Many have criticized him, even the British media, Mirror.co.uk was denounced. Accusations not empathize certainly not inconceivable when they pose to immortalize a rare moment of it.
The more noticeable differences in the perception of empathy when remembering the time towards the turn of the year 2015 sounded very loud bang firecrackers for at least 3 days at the beginning of this year. This year became the longest firecracker party throughout my nearly 41 years of age. Makassar sky seemed to belong to the few. At 1 am, I terbangung. My daughter also woke with a start. He hugged me as she asked, does that sound was the sound of cannon. I reassured her. And we were sleeping in each other's arms position.
Festive new year new this time lasted for days was in contrast with Air Asia plane crash at the end of 2014, which killed 155 people. Also in contrast to the venom demonstration of rising fuel prices, followed by the increase in prices of goods in November-December 2014, when the demonstrations cause a riot-riot up to 1 person killed.
The price of the goods then do not go down when fuel prices go down twice but the celebration of the Birth of the Prophet Muhammad that have become a tradition of South Sulawesi remains rampant organized everywhere. Schools, ranging from primary school level to high school and even make it a tradition. As if inserting "cultural elements", the celebration of the Prophet's Birthday in schools enlivened by the presentation of traditional food from glutinous rice and eggs are decorated. Not to forget the containers of various shapes and colors decorated colorful paper further enliven the atmosphere.
Some schools assign students to deposit a sum of money or goods in the same amount. Some are asking students to bring their own dish that normally exist in the Prophet's Birthday memorial typical of this area. Containers, wooden sticks buffer eggs, and traditional food in the form of songkolo 'or kaddo' minnya 'along with side dishes become imperative innate diperlombakan.
Many students are competing to make the most interesting grain because their teachers say what they serve will be assessed. The word "assessed" indirectly related to report cards so that anyone would be working on well for the sake of scoring high. Their parents support their children by providing as much money as tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of dollars to get a container of the most beautiful and the most delicious food. Which then led to wonder, if such is the case, what's the relevance of education?
Collect money or material with the same number can still be tolerated because it is usually the amount requested does not burden on parents. Most parents could still working on it. But bring a dish to diperlombakan that make the parents pay vying for the most beautiful dish that his children could obtain high marks, not that hurt education because there is absolutely nothing to do?
Then if linked with empathy, whether the way a race like that in the world of education worth it?
Empathy is what we need at this time. In an age when extreme things happen commonplace, such as the increase in the price of goods that can not go down again while fuel prices have gone down twice.
Such as empathy demanded by traders of used clothing in High Cliff, Balikpapan, Bandung, Surabaya, Nunukan, Makassar, and other cities in South Sulawesi. Thousands or even tens of thousands of traders and their families confused with the ban on imports of used clothing. The consumers also feel aggrieved. Garment enterprises and convection in the country does not always help alleviate the difficulties will be limited income while they are required to dress feasible because although produced in the country, does not mean that the price is cheap and good quality.
When money is increasingly difficult to obtain and more expensive material, in the middle of other issues that demolish this nation, empathy can not be obtained more easily when it does not take charge to get it?
