What way to cure indifference?

Should we shower love and compassion on indifferent people?

In this way can we show them what it's like to live in a world where people are something other than indifferent to each other?

But what of the hate usually mixed in? What when their indifference is also tied into suspicions of evil all around them? When they perceive evil they respond with hateful actions and cause harm, how should we then respond?

The same. We respond still with love and compassion even when they hurt us exactly to show that their perception that we're evil is simply wrong.

Against this though is the worry that we're thus letting them get away with the hurt that they've caused. That instead of punishing them for their harmful actions were basically sending a message that they can get away with such actions.

But we already know that a world based on punishment and force doesn't work so very well.

Whether it's hate or indifference or a mixture of both (and indifference is the worse of the two) we should respond with love and compassion. At the same time we still need to try to somehow speak out and say when an action (or lack thereof) is causing harm.

This is complicated. Because speaking out may likely mean they'll think you wish them harm. They'll think you're 'attacking' them. To both speak out against their actions and to still love them and truly try to make their life better is something between difficult and impossible.

In this industrial society if you ever speak out against someone's actions you're immediately someone who should just go away. There's millions living in some proximity of one another. Those who have any disagreement have no reason to have anything to do with one another.

In this industrial society there's no reasons to bother caring about the welfare of people. To show such love and compassion in and of itself is considered strange.

In this industrial society there's no reasons to bother trying to work through disagreements.

The system is setup so that what should be done is basically impossible. But still, to what extent it can be done, it must be done.