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wblastyn wrote:
Does anyone else ever get morally outraged at things other people don't care about?
Like today, it was snowing really heavily and I didn't want to risk going into work. I didn't want to get stuck in the snow and maybe have to walk home late at night, as it may not be safe. So I phoned in and was told I should come in because people have come to work from miles away, etc. Well that's all well and good for them, but just because they were willing to risk skidding and crashing their car, or getting stranded, doesn't mean the rest of us should. Also, I didn't want to risk getting attacked while walking home at night. But she told me to try all options to get into work. So in the end I managed to make it in, to avoid confrontation, and got home safely. But I was angry all day because it felt as though the manager cared more about the company making money than my well-being.
Then there was another incident where my manager tried to sell eggs that had been contaminated with mouse droppings.
Yes.Like today, it was snowing really heavily and I didn't want to risk going into work. I didn't want to get stuck in the snow and maybe have to walk home late at night, as it may not be safe. So I phoned in and was told I should come in because people have come to work from miles away, etc. Well that's all well and good for them, but just because they were willing to risk skidding and crashing their car, or getting stranded, doesn't mean the rest of us should. Also, I didn't want to risk getting attacked while walking home at night. But she told me to try all options to get into work. So in the end I managed to make it in, to avoid confrontation, and got home safely. But I was angry all day because it felt as though the manager cared more about the company making money than my well-being.
Then there was another incident where my manager tried to sell eggs that had been contaminated with mouse droppings.
But then again, if you work in a grocery store, what happens if too few of the staff turn up for their shifts and that means the store can't operate and customers who need groceries to eat can't buy them? I know if I'd run out of groceries and if my local store was closed because the staff hadn't made the effort to get to work I'd feel pretty peeved. Maybe your boss was also concerned about wanting to provide a service for the customers? I know, I know, how naive and optimistic of me!
Especially given that next sentence. Ew! 
wblastyn wrote:
Amongst other things I get angry at all the injustice, etc that goes on in the world, and how selfish and generally stupid a lot of people are.
When I told people about these things they kinda shrug it off and more or less said "that's how things are". So it makes me think it must be wrong to worry or be angry about things like this, but I can't seem to help it.
Although, maybe being morally outraged at some things can be a good thing. Afterall, if everyone just shrugged and accepted how things are we would still have slavery, etc. But perhaps the things I get annoyed with are silly, but I don't know how to stop being annoyed...
Me too. I get really wound up by injustice. I'm outraged by politicians in my country, bailing out the banks, failing to reign in the worst excesses of the financial and corporate sectors and then making poor and disabled people pay the price. It's disgusting. I think it's immoral and I'm outraged. When I told people about these things they kinda shrug it off and more or less said "that's how things are". So it makes me think it must be wrong to worry or be angry about things like this, but I can't seem to help it.
Although, maybe being morally outraged at some things can be a good thing. Afterall, if everyone just shrugged and accepted how things are we would still have slavery, etc. But perhaps the things I get annoyed with are silly, but I don't know how to stop being annoyed...
And I get morally outraged by discrimination, inequality, the gap between rich and poor and how obscene it is that some people have billions of pounds, more money than they can spend in their lifetimes, and yet children starve to death on this planet.
And I find it morally outrageous that a country that spends billions of dollars on weapons and waging war denies funding for a life-saving heart transplant for a father: http://www.channel4.com/news/transplant ... tal-organs
That angers and saddens me in equal measure, that politicians have so little humanity that they would create that kind of situation.
