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Think about this for a second. We lost 2700 some-odd people on 9/11 2001, right? How long did we hear about that? 2 years or so? We rant on and on about it here. The story will not die.
Originally posted by spliff4020
Still, murder or not, 275,000 dead people on will get you a month on TV here, but 2500 dead americans will get you years and congressional hearings, and the whole 9 yards.
I'm not trivializing 9/11, but rather am sickened by our lack of caring for anyone beyond our borders..(unless they posses WMDs)
Originally posted by dgtempe
I think we have our own world of crap right here, so much in fact, that others problems are trivial to ours.
OH, and by the way, the world doesnt hate the US. The world hates the current US government.
[edit on 12-4-2005 by dgtempe]
Originally posted by dgtempe
Well, did i say i didnt care?
Did i say we shouldnt care? no.
What i said is fact of life, whether it sounds mean and selfish or not.
I helped tsunami victims by giving them $50.00 big deal! right? I doubt if that helped anyone at all, but i tried as many of you did. We are not selfish people. We give what we can. What else can be expected?
The truth hurts and this is the truth. Humans by nature take care of their own first.
You implied that the majority of Americans have problems of such greater importance that any catastrophe which befalls our fellow man outside of our country, now matter HOW life-obliterative, will always be seen as less important, "trivial", and insignificant. You say this is a fact of life, I say you are wrong. I say this is a social pandemic of apathy that feeds the very fires of conflict which we are supposedly trying to put out at the same time. It's a bigger problem than you think, and saying "just deal with it because it's a fact of life" shows that not only are you fully infected, but you lack the ethical conviction of an genuinely honorable human being.
When the Tsunami occured, most Americans were not getting over personal or nearby disasters of their own. Thousands of tornadoes, floods, earthquakes, murders, etc. did not happen to American citizens at the same time as the Tsunami, so using the "we have plenty of things on our own plate to deal with" excuse is not applicable.
And doesn't Fargo flood like every spring anyway? They should just move the damn city.