This is true. I was mad into true crime in my 20s. Since having a kid I just can’t read anything that reinforces how awful the world can be, especially anything involving kids. I am still having nightmares over stuff that pops up in my news feed.

I think it’s stages of life and I think both are important. It’s necessary to know how black the human soul can be for practical purposes. But once you know it, it’s bottomless and you don’t need to get sucked in further. it’s also important to enjoy the good, uplifting parts of human nature.

I feel this. I used to be quite psychopathic and withdrawn from injuries or suffering (videos, stories etc) but as soon as I became a father anything revolving kids being hurt, mistreated or killed disgusts me on a level I’d never experienced before in my life.

Yeah I was going to say this too. I have had some moments of extreme dreed after reading stuff where small children, especially if slightly older or the same age as my daughter, are seriously hurt or killed. Especially in freak accident situations. Before I really didn't care so much.

The Road by Cormac McCarthy is a book you need to read