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My reaction to the floods? Couldn’t care less : Comments
By Brian Holden, published 17/1/2011No matter how flooded citizens in a wealthy country are, national wealth will still keep them pretty dry.
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As for caring...how could one not? Did the author *seriously* not feel some pain for the victims even though he didn't know them?
Just because the media babbles and the politicians preen it doesn't mean the event itself is somehow tainted.
Rhian is spot on about hierarchy of concern.
Viking is also spot on: We'd like to care, but we cannot go around pumping money into corrupt nations. Democracy involves community cohesion and some bottom-up activism...if we see a deserving people then we will help. Sad choice to have to make (for those of us that can feel empathy for strangers...even foreign strangers with racial differences)...but the only rational one we can make. It's kind of like sympathy for historical disasters...sad but not *too* sad.