Undeserved Sympathy

[Mray3460]

The newest Zero Punctuation video (Scribblenauts) got me thinking. Have you ever felt sorry for someone who did not deserve your sympathy in the slightest (Whether because of their tremendous fortune, the fact that they were actually pure evil, or some other factor that you hadn't considered or known about when you were feeling sorry for them)? If so, who and why?

My Example:
When I was six years old, I was watching a documentary on the history channel about an Austrian-born painter who was beaten by his father, had his mother die in his arms, and then was rejected from every art school he ever went to on the grounds that his art didn't meet the standards of the university, and I felt genuinely sorry for him...then the documentary got to the part where he gained enormous popularity, took over a nation as a dictator, started a world war, and killed over six-million innocent people...and people wonder why I'm messed up...

 

[AkJay]

haha, Hitler.

Anyway, yea, i don't really have much sympathy for anyone.

 

[TheNumber1Zero]

Your not messed up, your an escapist.

Also your example confused me, do you mean felt sorry for them only to find out a reason to not, or to feel sorry for someone while knowing the reason not to?

 

[Xan Krieger]

I remember a lot of people near where I live felt bad when a guy from this area nearly got crippled in Spain during the Running of the bulls. Let me get this straight, they felt bad for him because he got injured after running through the streets from a horde of bulls when he could just have easily sat on th sidelines. I have no sympathy for people who get hurt doing stupid things.

Same for people who do something like get paralyzed after bungie jumping. If you're going to commit mock suicide by leaping off a bridge I have no sympathy when that cord snaps or you snap.

 

[Mray3460]

Your not messed up, your an escapist.

Also your example confused me, do you mean felt sorry for them only to find out a reason to not, or to feel sorry for someone while knowing the reason not to?

Either example will work.

 

[Valiance]

Rommel, though I never met the guy, so I'll never really know.

 

[Berethond]

Now, really.
Have you ever seen any of Hitler's paintings?
They're terrible.
Maybe God's an art lover?

 

[Raven's Nest]

I tend to feel absolutley fucking none somewhat little sympathy for pregnant teenagers and or people who contract STI's... Just use a rubber for god's sake. (unless your a catholic in which case you think God's giving you a thumbs up)

 

[skywalkerlion]

I can feel sympathy for just about anyone in the planet.

And when I say anyone..I mean ANYONE.

 

[amrl]

I can feel sympathy for just about anyone in the planet.

And when I say anyone..I mean ANYONE.

Same.
If I don't like someone I think up numerous, and usually unorthodox, reasons for them actually deserving sympathy.

 

[WickedArtist]

I have a lot of sympathy, but I deal it out sparingly for various reasons, so I never (to my recollection) had any of it for someone who didn't deserve it or I later found out did not deserve it. I had more sympathy for fictional characters and even animals than I ever had for real humans - real humans tend to be more crap and usually don't deserve any sympathy.

 

[TheMadTypist]

Ya know, if those art schools had had lower standards, he'd have just been another pretentious git.

history would be a whole lot better if they just let him paint his damned happy trees. And where do art schools get off telling people what quality art is? I thought the whole point of art was that it was subjective to the audience and therefore there was no "bad art" just "bad reception" or "wrong audience".

 

[ProfessorLayton]

Now, really.
Have you ever seen any of Hitler's paintings?
They're terrible.
Maybe God's an art lover?

They aren't that bad. I mean, his stuff is better than what I can make.

 

[sethwood]

Oh man, I feel sorry for no one I know, because no one really deserves it.

 

[Godavari]

I don't have sympathy for pathetic people who bring things on themselves.
I'll use FMyLife.com as an example. Half of the FML's are things like "Today, I did something really really stupid, and I or an acquaintance got hurt. FML" I always say they deserve it.
I only pity people who are immune to karma.

 

[Berethond]

Now, really.
Have you ever seen any of Hitler's paintings?
They're terrible.
Maybe God's an art lover?

They aren't that bad. I mean, his stuff is better than what I can make.

Yeah they are. They're pretty bad.