Someone Elses Problem/Quotes

""The great thing about [invading] your species, Dib, is that most of them don't notice.""

- Tak, Invader Zim

""Three assholes laying into a guy while everyone else watches, and you want to know what's wrong with me?""

- Kick-Ass, thoroughly averting this trope

""At minimum, by this point, you should not give a shit. Regular readers of this space should have the mental fortitude to not give TWO shits... and advanced apathy masters can fail to give anywhere between three and five shits.""

- Bryan Lambert, You Are Dumb

""Once ze rockets go up, who cares where zhey come down? That's not my department" - says Wehner Von Braun"

- Tom Lehrer, "Wehner Von Braun"

""..and in this footage you can see various pedestrians who clearly don't give a $h!t that somebody near them just collapsed and died.""

- L, Death Note: The Abridged Series

""I thought I heard a ruckus downstairs a minute ago. Do you know what that was all about?"

"No idea. But no need to worry because everything above the 60th floor is safe.""

- Two unnamed citizens, overheard on the 61st floor by the people who caused said ruckus, Final Fantasy VII

"An SEP is something we can't see, or don't see, or our brain doesn't let us see, because we think that it's somebody else's problem.... The brain just edits it out, it's like a blind spot. If you look at it directly you won't see it unless you know precisely what it is. Your only hope is to catch it by surprise out of the corner of your eye."

- Ford Prefect, Life, The Universe, and Everything

"That's your problem. Givin' a fuck when it ain't your turn to give a fuck."

- "Bunk" Moreland, The Wire

"''It's a very tragic event, okay? But the simple fact remains I do not know this little girl. I do not know starving children in Panama. I do not know people who die of disease in Egypt. The only person I knew in this event was Jeremy Strohmeyer and I know as his best friend that he had potential. I'm sad that I lost a best friend.""

- Real Life Jerkass David Cash, on why he accepts no blame for not stopping his friend from molesting and murdering a little girl.

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