About the lack of empathy currently found in the world. The ‘pest’ analogy is a stand-in for all the suffering that we allow to happen in the world, namely on an individual scale.
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“It seems that empathy is in short supply and it felt like a thing worth t...
There's no reward
It’s a pest to you
Don't investigate
It's probably already dead
But what
If
It just starves?
It isn’t on you
There'd be no funeral
They probably can't feel it
Or anything
I can't imagine how that might feel, so
They probably can't feel it
But when they see you on yours
When they see you on yours
When they see you on yours
Pile released A Bug on Its Back on Fri May 03 2019.