Where do you draw the line on just who we're supposed to help, what gets on the news, etc? In places like India, or what used to be Burma or Thailand one storm can kill 5-10K people. Starvation can kill 3x that many in China or North Korea every winter, disease can wipe out whole areas in South America or Africa, gangs can take over and control whole areas of Mexico or other nations further south, ethnic violence can kill thousands or hundreds of thousands in Africa or the Balkans...where do you start?
Meanwhile back home, 2" of snow can "cripple" a state, people who live in flood plains or build cities in swamps demand billions each each it seems, drugs and booze plague most of our country, taxes cripple the middle class, muti-generational families live off the hard work of others, politicians steal their constituents blind, freedoms are taken and replaced with regulation.
I don't know anymore. I know I'll never give a single cent to the Red Cross after seeing them at 9/11 and other events. The individual Red Cross volunteer is a wonderful person, the organization is a bunch of money grubbing power brokers. The Salvation Army is 100% the real deal on the other hand in my experience. I don't know what to think much anymore. I know It's sad when thousands die across the world, but there's not much the individual can do to overturn gov't's that let their people die or to convince people to go to a better area or nation, if their gov't will even let them.
I think the problem is a lot bigger than the individuals pre-occupation with their own problems. I know I've seen first hand how media chooses what is and isn't a story and that's a big part of it.
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