Do you feel guilty?

Parachutes Fan

After work I went to work out at the gym and they had CNN on. Of course the news is about Israel and Lebanon and them bombing each other. I feel so helpless! There is nothing I can do. I just makes me really sad. So much destruction and for what? I'm not really sure. Pray for peace!

Lizard

Not guilty because guilt implies you did something wrong. I feel sad, upset, anxious, etc., but not guilt.

Abuskedti

yes, I feel guilty

Parachutes Fan

I guess I feel guilty because I'm here in my comfortable air conditioned home, worrying what to do on a Friday night and people are suffering with no relief. I can't imagine how it would feel to have air raid sirens going off and seeking shelter. Very scary!

artjam

I can not feel guilty for something beyond my control like where i was born. What are we supposed to do to help this situation really?

Eliot Rosewater

Parachute Fan wrote:

After work I went to work out at the gym and they had CNN on. Of course the news is about Israel and Lebanon and them bombing each other. I feel so helpless! There is nothing I can do. I just makes me really sad. So much destruction and for what? I'm not really sure. Pray for peace!

I feel guilty every day of my life but I try not to dwell on it. Maybe not guilty I guess....but sort of. More lucky to somehow be in a better situation than a lot of others in this world. Regarding war, I just got a letter from my senator today and he said he wants to work toward an exit plan for Iraq. He's lying of course because he's riding George's bush on every issue except stem cell research. But that's something that helps me - writing my senators and congressmen. It helps with the guilt because while I feel mostly helpless, I do think citizens can create change.

improvgirl312

If I knew what I could do to help, I'd do it in a second. The problem is that no one has a freakin' clue what to do.

I think every Canadian needs to put pressure on the Canadian government to return to its role as a peacekeeper and initiate peace talks in the region. We can't let Lebanon become another Afghanistan.

shiraz

I live in Israel and even I don't feel guilty, so why would you? these are the kind of things beyond our control, we can't really do anything about it. And If you feel like that because of the way you voted - same story. You can't really tell what's your govt would do or say in situations like this.

The only way you can help us is start looking at the whole picture, focus on civilians instead of who is to blame, don't turn us into black-or-white stroy like too many people tend to do, it only brings us hate and increases the level of extremism in the world (no, I'm not exaggeratung).

Ahnimus

We are all victims of greed and misinformation. In some form or another, someone influenced it all. Everyone else just thought it was a good idea. Except most of the people, but principle makers don't listen to them. They listen to god.