What is in us that turns a deaf ear to the cries of human suffering?
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I think it is as simple as people not wanting to become embroiled in someone else's problem.  Most people feel that if they ignore the cries, perhaps someone else will help.  Some people feel they have enough of their own problems to deal with.  This is not right, but I am sure it is what goes through people's minds.
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music...love...a hunger for truth...suffering?
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mute deaf n puts out....\njust joking  ;>
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Frequency. That is what it is all about, not decibals(loudness).Light and sound and radio....they are all waves, and sound carries a signature wave frequency. Some high frequencies cannot be heard by the human ear, even though our bodies and even voices produce high-frequency sounds we cannot hear all of the time. Did you ask the flatulence question as well? That applies in some rare occurences as well. Children can hear some frequencies that adults cannot. There is even a device sold that emits this frequency to annoy and chase off children and loitering teens. (It has been in the headlines recently because some adult humans can still hear this frequency well into their 30's.)\nUnless you asked this Q wrong, there is no sound too loud to be heard unless the eardrum is blown instantly.Very loud sounds are usually felt too in vibration, so even if you're eardrum blew you would still feel it and thusly "hear" the sound as a fully deaf person would.
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There make very low frequency sounds that we cannot hear. They also make sounds that we do hear and it is because they what other animals to hear it.
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When we are born, we cry out that we are come to this great stage of fools.
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I've had it all sweetheart! NOO FUN! It must stink to not be able to here. I don't really know how long it took me to get my hearing back. I don't know if I have lost all my hearing from this. But then again I am deaf and wear hearing aids! POOR YOU!! Hope you get feeling better fast!
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Babies don't cry loud enough to cause hearing damage. Their cry is just loud enough, at at the right pitch, and for the right duration, to be really, really annoying, particularly if the baby is not yours and you are stuck behind it in a shopping check-out.\nBut not loud enough to cause damage, just shatter your nerves\n\nRemember, this cry is an evolutionary development to make sure the baby is not ignored. It is meant to be annoying.\n\n.
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List the forms of special treatment, or stop talking like a bumper sticker. What ruins things is when people talk in soundbites. \n\nNo marriage rights (in a lot of places, no relationshp equality of any kind), no next-of-kin rights, no rights regarding parenting, abominably high suicide rate, and endemic anti-gay violence. \n\nyeah, we're rolling in the favours. I blames them demmycrats
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I read once where thy think that nails on chalkboard and stuff like that are similar to our warning screeches when we were more primitive primates.  They make our hair stand up on end and bug us.  Just like a warning sound should do.  Makes sense to me until I hear a better explanation.
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Ted Kennedy is a perfect example of the shouting you mention.  In his case he does it because he is mentally deficient.
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america crys   SOS SOS SOS
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It induces premature deafness.
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yes. LOTS of ppl's voices drive me crazy. i wish i could beat them to death with a spike bat sometimes.
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Anything which gives a feeling of disgust, hatred or past bad experience. It can be anything. ANYTHING!
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The cup of suffering.
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Max Ehrmann's Desiderata\n\nGo placidly amid the noise and haste,\nand remember what peace there may be in silence.