Humanity largely ignores the significance of inner wounds.

Inner wounds

Everyone can easily see what would constitute a fatal exterior wound. It's bleeding, people going into shock at the sight of it, fainting, etc. It's very clear that the wound is fatal. Think of decapitation.

What about inner wounds? Not like a ruptured appendix or arrhythmia, but emotional wounds. Can those too be fatal? If so, what would constitute a fatal inner wound?

I don't really know which way that would go, and I can't really fathom what could cause that much inner pain. Logically it's possible for that to happen, even if it's rare.

Which leads me to my question of the day, people are very careful about causing injury to others that can be seen on the outside. Why are people so flippant about those inner wounds? Their lack of visibility does not diminish the pain, nor does it make them any less of an affront to the injured. Yet, every single person injures others this way, and thinks nothing of it.

That all reminds me of a debate I got into with my AI on my phone. I asked it, which was worse racism or classism. Personally, both are terrible and in 2025 we should have moved beyond both of those things, however for the sake of debate, I asked. Universally the responses were, as expected, condemning of racism. It didn't really take into account several things. 1. Racism is recognized (external wounds). 2. There are systemic consequences in place for racists (catching charges for externally wounding another). 3. While the consequences and system in place to enforce those need a lot more work, they do exist. Racism being defined as color, creed, or gender.

As it kept going, I asked about any systemic things in place to punish those that are classist (cruelty to the poor), there are none. Someone can deny you anything they want based solely on your social status and face zero chance of consequence. There are no laws protecting the poor, there are no united groups that lobby for the poor, there are no means of justice for the poor. It's overlooked, ignored, and oftentimes outright tolerated. People die at a much higher rate from classism than racism. There's no excuse for either, but only one can land you in prison.

Very much like inner wounds.