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Ozzie Paez

Oct 15, 2015
2 min

Visualizing the human costs: WWII

In a 1932 essay, German journalist and pacifist Kurt Tucholsky quoted a fictional French diplomat describing the human tragedy of war: “The war? I cannot find it to be so bad! The death of one man: this is a catastrophe. Hundreds of thousands of deaths: that is a statistic!”[1] It turns out that this attitude may not be simple cynicism, but a common cognitive phenomenon dubbed the collapse of compassion. Psychologist Keith Payne points out that “it's not simply that as the nu

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