Characters: Dylan (TV show host, explains indifference), Jack (Regular guy who doesn’t know anything about indifference.)
Setting: In the city, and it’s the afternoon.
At Rise: Jack is crossing the street.
JACK: (Sees an old lady is helped across the street by a nice boy) Aww, humanity is so great.
(Sound effect: Poof)
DYLAN: (Magically appears) Actually, no it isn’t.
JACK: Who the heck are you?
DYLAN: I’m Dylan, and you’re on my TV show: Dylan Ruins Everything. I’m going to tell you that humanity is actually terrible. It’s a little something called indifference.
JACK: Like, we’re all the same?
DYLAN: Wrong! If someone is indifferent, that means they don’t care. In fact, indifference is considered by some to be worse than actual evil. …show more content…
DYLAN: Oh come on, there’s a homeless guy right there. (Dylan points and camera turns to reveal homeless man.) You don’t care.
JACK: But I’m talking to you right now. How am I supposed to be helping him?
DYLAN: That’s what they all say. One of the big reasons people are indifferent is because it doesn’t effect them, and they would have to go out of their normal routine in order to do something. When it doesn’t affect them, they can’t truly know what’s going on. Lots of people may have no idea what’s going on when it comes to things around the world. With all this you can see that it’s easy to be indifferent. Caring about something is tough, and if you care about everything, you’ll go insane.
JACK: (Listening thoughtfully) Okay…..
DYLAN: Then there’s deliberate indifference. This is when someone who’s being indifferent knows full well what’s going on. Back to the bullying example, someone might realize that someone’s being bullied, but maybe they’re like, ‘I don’t like you, so I’m going to let you get bullied.’ They know that harm will come to the victim, so in a way, they’re the friend of the enemy.
JACK: Man. Well It’s not like this has been happening forever. I bet it’s those gosh darn …show more content…
Can you truly understand what’s going on? To you, is the word slavery arbitrary or does it mean something? You might think that being a slave means they have to hard work for the whole day, have bad meals, and then aren’t allowed to do anything else. Well, they have crazy hours, are tortured and beaten if they do something slightly wrong, hardly get any food, and don’t get any money, even though if they did they wouldn’t be able to do anything with it.
JACK: Harsh. But even if I knew what was going on 100%, or anyone else for that matter, I still probably couldn’t do anything.
DYLAN: That’s because you have no leverage. Do you know what leverage is?
JACK: (Sighs and thinks) Like pulling a lever?
DYLAN: Not really. Leverage is your ability to do something. You are an average guy who needs to make a living, right?
JACK: Right.
DYLAN: This means that when stopping slavery, you have very little leverage. All you can really do is donate, volunteer, raise awareness, and things like that. Someone who would have lots of leverage, however, would be a leader of one of those countries. He can end slavery there like that (snaps).
JACK: So let me get this straight, indifference is when you don’t care about something.
DYLAN: Right.
JACK: And it’s absolutely horrible.
DYLAN: Right.
JACK: And you should try to do what you can to stop it.
DYLAN: (With excitement) Yes! Exactly! So, want lunch?
JACK: I think we’re done here. (Walks
Setting: In the city, and it’s the afternoon.
At Rise: Jack is crossing the street.
JACK: (Sees an old lady is helped across the street by a nice boy) Aww, humanity is so great.
(Sound effect: Poof)
DYLAN: (Magically appears) Actually, no it isn’t.
JACK: Who the heck are you?
DYLAN: I’m Dylan, and you’re on my TV show: Dylan Ruins Everything. I’m going to tell you that humanity is actually terrible. It’s a little something called indifference.
JACK: Like, we’re all the same?
DYLAN: Wrong! If someone is indifferent, that means they don’t care. In fact, indifference is considered by some to be worse than actual evil. …show more content…
DYLAN: Oh come on, there’s a homeless guy right there. (Dylan points and camera turns to reveal homeless man.) You don’t care.
JACK: But I’m talking to you right now. How am I supposed to be helping him?
DYLAN: That’s what they all say. One of the big reasons people are indifferent is because it doesn’t effect them, and they would have to go out of their normal routine in order to do something. When it doesn’t affect them, they can’t truly know what’s going on. Lots of people may have no idea what’s going on when it comes to things around the world. With all this you can see that it’s easy to be indifferent. Caring about something is tough, and if you care about everything, you’ll go insane.
JACK: (Listening thoughtfully) Okay…..
DYLAN: Then there’s deliberate indifference. This is when someone who’s being indifferent knows full well what’s going on. Back to the bullying example, someone might realize that someone’s being bullied, but maybe they’re like, ‘I don’t like you, so I’m going to let you get bullied.’ They know that harm will come to the victim, so in a way, they’re the friend of the enemy.
JACK: Man. Well It’s not like this has been happening forever. I bet it’s those gosh darn …show more content…
Can you truly understand what’s going on? To you, is the word slavery arbitrary or does it mean something? You might think that being a slave means they have to hard work for the whole day, have bad meals, and then aren’t allowed to do anything else. Well, they have crazy hours, are tortured and beaten if they do something slightly wrong, hardly get any food, and don’t get any money, even though if they did they wouldn’t be able to do anything with it.
JACK: Harsh. But even if I knew what was going on 100%, or anyone else for that matter, I still probably couldn’t do anything.
DYLAN: That’s because you have no leverage. Do you know what leverage is?
JACK: (Sighs and thinks) Like pulling a lever?
DYLAN: Not really. Leverage is your ability to do something. You are an average guy who needs to make a living, right?
JACK: Right.
DYLAN: This means that when stopping slavery, you have very little leverage. All you can really do is donate, volunteer, raise awareness, and things like that. Someone who would have lots of leverage, however, would be a leader of one of those countries. He can end slavery there like that (snaps).
JACK: So let me get this straight, indifference is when you don’t care about something.
DYLAN: Right.
JACK: And it’s absolutely horrible.
DYLAN: Right.
JACK: And you should try to do what you can to stop it.
DYLAN: (With excitement) Yes! Exactly! So, want lunch?
JACK: I think we’re done here. (Walks