The more people die, the less people care

# According to a new study, mass killings reported as statistics fail to tickle human emotions while a person's accidental death reported on the evening news can bring viewers to tears.

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# The knowledge of atrocities such as killings in Darfur fails to motivate most to take action despite the Internet and other modern communications.

# People typically react very strongly to one death but their emotions fade as the number of victims increase.

# Human insensitivity to large-scale human suffering has been observed in the past century with genocides in Armenia, the Ukraine, Nazi Germany and Rwanda, among others.