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Originally Posted by sarah_webinc
on anybody' scale this isn't just another disaster. In addition to Pakistan it also hit India. Yeah, that's the same India that gave money to us for Katrina but they I was never taught to only have compassion for the people that gave me money in the past. These people live on less than $2 a day but yeah they aren't allowed our sympathy unless they pony up.
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yea I'm not saying we should just ignore them.. of course we should help them and donate to the funds and help them out if there is any way. Of course I feel bad for them and I hate to see people suffer and die.
However I just get sick of all the bash USA people because we don't sit here and talk about the stuff 24/7 or this or that. Sure we are going to talk about a Hurricane hitting N.O. for a few weeks or a terrorist attack on our country. That's because it directly affects us in our lives.
So while thousands of people getting killed in another country is really bad. It's not something we are going to dwell on for days and weeks on end. It's not because we don't care, it's because it doesn't directly affect our day to day lives. You can call that selfish if you want but it's the truth. Just because we don't talk about it doesn't mean we don't care.
You know, why is it only when something like this happens people say oh my that bad for a few weeks and pretend they really care.. Yet thousands of people have died in countries like The Sudan and no one makes topics for them. Why is it no one cares about the thousands of people put in North Korea death camps every year? N.K kills off entire families if one member does something wrong.. Kids are left to starve on the streets because the food aid we give them gets sold by the N.K. govt on the black market. What about the thousands of people dieing of aids in Africa, where is their forum topics?