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I feel bad now... AWWWW SO SAD.
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Zana 
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Posted 27 May 2010 - 05:01 AM
Oh fuck, J, why did you post that picture? D:
And you shouldn't feel guilty, it's not your fault people go hungry.
You can always donate or something.
And you shouldn't feel guilty, it's not your fault people go hungry.
You can always donate or something.
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J★Blooper
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Posted 27 May 2010 - 05:13 AM
Zana, on 27 May 2010 - 12:01 AM, said:
Oh fuck, J, why did you post that picture? D:
And you shouldn't feel guilty, it's not your fault people go hungry.
You can always donate or something.
And you shouldn't feel guilty, it's not your fault people go hungry.
You can always donate or something.
;_; Yes it is. I ate all their food 'cuz I'm FAT XDDDD
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Posted 27 May 2010 - 06:28 AM
Pomelo, on 27 May 2010 - 12:15 AM, said:
There are plenty of starving people in America, too.
Unless they're children, those people have only themselves to blame. I'm sure there are exceptions, but in general it's your own damn fault if you starve to death in America.
Build a man a fire, and you keep him warm for a day.
Light a man on fire, and you keep him warm for the rest of his life.
Light a man on fire, and you keep him warm for the rest of his life.
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Posted 27 May 2010 - 07:42 AM
We can't feel guilty about being in conditions that other members of society (or the world for that matter) are not. Unless, you know, we all suddenly became communistic and started cloning each other. Good times. Life isn't fair. You can't compare unrelated circumstances as if they correlated to each other.
Percentage wise, they're are not as many starving people in America, but hell they're there. Likewise, places like Africa and the Middle East are not places filled with poverty and dying children. Africa and the ME are vastly globalized, modernized, and culturally homogenized places, much like the west is today. It's a grim misconception to think that obesity and wealth in the Americas have anything to do with the poverty and famine in these very developed places of the world. Sure, people starve, people die, but we can't take responsibility especially when the nations these people belong to, generally have the means of providing for themselves. There are many political, social, economical, even accidental factors that contribute to poverty rates and starvation around the world, but we sure ain't a huge part of that.
So what? Are we going to just stop eating? Reduce our society down to an impoverished, underdeveloped, unfed civilization just because we noticed that certain individuals around the world were worse off that we are? No, we don't do that. Should we give food and money to these places so they could catch up to us? No, aid dependence has shown to cause damages for both parties involved. What we should do is to work toward aiding in helping to develop ways for a group of people or society to be able to support itself and to get themselves out of absolute poverty. Of course, this isn't as simple as it sounds, but it seems to be the only reasonable, workable, long-term option.
This new abstract, modern way of thinking seems to affect the best of us. We do get swayed when we see others in need, and usually feel guilty about the luxuries on might have while another does not, yet we still go about our daily lives because we still recognize that we are in no part as individuals to blame for this.
Percentage wise, they're are not as many starving people in America, but hell they're there. Likewise, places like Africa and the Middle East are not places filled with poverty and dying children. Africa and the ME are vastly globalized, modernized, and culturally homogenized places, much like the west is today. It's a grim misconception to think that obesity and wealth in the Americas have anything to do with the poverty and famine in these very developed places of the world. Sure, people starve, people die, but we can't take responsibility especially when the nations these people belong to, generally have the means of providing for themselves. There are many political, social, economical, even accidental factors that contribute to poverty rates and starvation around the world, but we sure ain't a huge part of that.
So what? Are we going to just stop eating? Reduce our society down to an impoverished, underdeveloped, unfed civilization just because we noticed that certain individuals around the world were worse off that we are? No, we don't do that. Should we give food and money to these places so they could catch up to us? No, aid dependence has shown to cause damages for both parties involved. What we should do is to work toward aiding in helping to develop ways for a group of people or society to be able to support itself and to get themselves out of absolute poverty. Of course, this isn't as simple as it sounds, but it seems to be the only reasonable, workable, long-term option.
This new abstract, modern way of thinking seems to affect the best of us. We do get swayed when we see others in need, and usually feel guilty about the luxuries on might have while another does not, yet we still go about our daily lives because we still recognize that we are in no part as individuals to blame for this.
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Posted 27 May 2010 - 07:49 AM
Zero just did a very good job of saying what I was too lazy to say myself. Bravo, good sir.
Build a man a fire, and you keep him warm for a day.
Light a man on fire, and you keep him warm for the rest of his life.
Light a man on fire, and you keep him warm for the rest of his life.
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Posted 27 May 2010 - 08:11 PM
I like Zero's thinking.
Too many people care about these issues of equality and suffering, yet that care is so shallow.
"I feel bad", and yet the next day, it shall be another thought in the back of your mind and you laugh and smile to your friends as you casually live your pampered lives.
I don't exclude myself from this section of the population of course, and it is one of the things that bothers me consistently... About how people really don't care after all.
Here you sit on the internet, typing and posting pictures of people suffering on the other sides of the world, but do you really feel sad? Affected?
To anyone who wants to start a movement, I'll gladly lend my skills at Photo manipulation to whatever you need. For free and of my own time...
And to everyone else who believes that Africa is a land of poverty and starvation while North America remains the world's heaviest country...
OH YES IT'S TRUE! EVERYONE IS BONE THIN IN AFRICA AND THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS LOVE OR MARRIAGE. OR HAPPY FAMILIES AND WELL EDUCATED AFRICANS. They're all poor is that right?
The first step towards change, is knowing what you are changing.
Too many people care about these issues of equality and suffering, yet that care is so shallow.
"I feel bad", and yet the next day, it shall be another thought in the back of your mind and you laugh and smile to your friends as you casually live your pampered lives.
I don't exclude myself from this section of the population of course, and it is one of the things that bothers me consistently... About how people really don't care after all.
Here you sit on the internet, typing and posting pictures of people suffering on the other sides of the world, but do you really feel sad? Affected?
To anyone who wants to start a movement, I'll gladly lend my skills at Photo manipulation to whatever you need. For free and of my own time...
And to everyone else who believes that Africa is a land of poverty and starvation while North America remains the world's heaviest country...
OH YES IT'S TRUE! EVERYONE IS BONE THIN IN AFRICA AND THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS LOVE OR MARRIAGE. OR HAPPY FAMILIES AND WELL EDUCATED AFRICANS. They're all poor is that right?
The first step towards change, is knowing what you are changing.
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