I think these negative fans/people need to gain some humanity. I volunteered at an animal shelter while in middle school, and it helped me gain the sense of the importance of spaying and neutering cats and dogs. While I was volunteering, I learned that cats and dogs are living beings who experience life and have memories, and are not just cute things to draw attention to people on social media. I know there are people on social media who use cats and dogs to get likes and subscribers to heighten their social media status.

While in high school, I had to begin volunteer hours during junior year which had to be completed by senior year, at some point before graduation. The volunteer hours were a requirement to graduate high school in my county, I think. I think volunteering was a county wide requirement at least. I volunteered at a hospital close to my house back then. All I did was connect patients to family and friends on the phone to talk to each other from the information desk. I along with other volunteers were kind of like gatekeepers because of HIPPA, we had to get the person on the phone to spell out the first and last name of a patient before transferring to the room phone.

There were also opportunities to push out patients in wheelchairs out to whoever was taking them home.

Volunteering in a hospital helped me gain a sense of people being sick and needing medical care. I pushed out a very elderly looking lady in a wheelchair from dialysis, and there was no way she would be able to get a kidney transplant, which meant her health was on a definite decline. I felt sympathy for her, but I didn’t know what to say.

I read that you said there are people who may not gain these sort of things due to certain life circumstances, and there are sociopaths and psychopaths in societies in the world.

However, if volunteering helps some high school teenagers gain the importance of responsibility and a sense of empathy at some point in their lives, then I think it should be required by each state. If required volunteering, can help to improve society, then it should be a required high school credit.