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That's kinda weird to me. You have no interest in getting to know them other than how they fit into the picture. They aren't really people to you, just stats.
To each it's own. But to me that's weird.
There you go again. I'm starting to wonder if all this deliberate misinterpretation of what people say is part of an elaborate wind-up.
However - I'll give you the benefit of the doubt just this once and answer your question. No, of course they're not just stats to me, they're real people. They have their own circles of friends and family, I have mine. I'm sure some of them are great people, others may not be so nice. However, they've all lived through the same times and life events that I have. My great great grandparents, and their ancestors, on the other hand, lived very different lives from mine - they lived through times of massive social change, important developments in agriculture and industry, through various wars, lost children to all sorts of diseases, survived Spanish flu - a whole lot of things that I haven't lived through. I am a direct descendant of these people, and I feel that my life, my whole existence is a continuation of theirs. Of course I find them interesting! Some sort of second or third cousin, at different degrees of removal, living a parallel life to mine through the second half of the twentieth, and the first two decades of the twenty-first century are much less interesting to me, and I know that works both ways.
Mike