Does this make me a horrible person?
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It's a flaw in you persona, but it don't make you a horrible person. It's when someone think Japan deserved it because of Pearl Harbour they're on the slippery road to total assholes.ReservoirAngel said:
Personally, unless something effects me directly, I don't care about it.ReservoirAngel said:
Some might say I am a horrible person, I would call them a hypocrite. Now, I don't know how many people have died or how much money is going to be spent to correct it, what I do know is more people die in the third world than in Japan due to this and yet nobody gives much of a damn about it.
Sure, we may all throw the odd pocket change into a collection bucket and get a shot of happiness but how much did that 51P really help?
OK, so some places have dictators taking all the money but why hasn't he been stopped from doing that, then help the people? It's not like America and England are agaisnt going somewhere and killing a leader ... What UK bankers get paid in bonuses in one year could build a city in the third world and yet were all blah-say about that.
So to summarize, clean up the third world so people aren't dying of starvation, while people eat themselves to 500 pounds, then come and talk and talk to me about how bad Japan is.
We can do something about the third world we can't do much about Japan except clean up, yet would rather help clean up than save the third world.
It's weird that people just flat out ignore what you say, and continue the thread.Jingai09 said:
Thank you for enlightening me on the situation.
As for TS:
Just mind your wording, otherwise it's ok.
I hate how media feeds on disasters. Norway was nearly on the brink of collapsing by the mere mention of "swine flu" a while back, all because media hyped it the fuck up.
No, it does not make you a horrible person. I can see how it can get irritating hearing about Japan every five minutes (or less). Just donate some money (if you want to) and ignore anyone who is talking about it, after all you did that is really the most an average person can do.
Though it is true that we do give Africa billions every year, I am fairly sure it is relative in terms of how much they need this aid.FamoFunk said:
Also, I'm fairly sure that Japan has said they do not want monetary aid and would prefer man power from foreign countries.
You're not a horrible person for this (I can't say you're not a horrible person as a whole because I don't know if you're secretly burning orphanages). You may come across as insensitive, though, you may want to word it differently or drop out of the conversation for a while in order not to hurt anyone's feelings.
I should have replied directly first:
No you're not really horrible because since tuesday nothing has really happened at the plant, just a bunch of bullshit arguing about arbitrary scales and where radiation may go if it gets out at a certain time of the day with a certain wind pattern and whether or not there's water in the cooling pools when neither the US or Japanese government can actually see into it.
There's a storm of bullshit surrounding this, it's better not to get dragged into it because so many different irrational fears are being played on by a lot of media organizations.
If you're worried about Karma, just donate to the red cross or something, honestly the biggest problem is the nuclear plant because any aid we in the south send up north needs to circumvent Fukushima prefecture. So they need to go north then west, then north then east; not very effective ne?
No you're not really horrible because since tuesday nothing has really happened at the plant, just a bunch of bullshit arguing about arbitrary scales and where radiation may go if it gets out at a certain time of the day with a certain wind pattern and whether or not there's water in the cooling pools when neither the US or Japanese government can actually see into it.
There's a storm of bullshit surrounding this, it's better not to get dragged into it because so many different irrational fears are being played on by a lot of media organizations.
If you're worried about Karma, just donate to the red cross or something, honestly the biggest problem is the nuclear plant because any aid we in the south send up north needs to circumvent Fukushima prefecture. So they need to go north then west, then north then east; not very effective ne?
'ReservoirAngel said:
While it's probably not the most politically correct way of responding, I can see where you're coming from. Because of the way that social media has pervaded our lives, it has now become "trendy" to constantly talk about whatever disaster/relief effort/latest destruction has occurred.
This "danger trending" occurred during the Iran Elections, the Haiti Relief Efforts, the BP Oil Spill, The Chilean Miners and now is trending around the Japan Earthquake.
It's probably best, if it annoys you, to just keep calm, keep quiet, express sympathies if asked, and change the subject. Otherwise you're going to get an earful.
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TBH, there was a time when I would have called you a f***er.. but now I believe its your own personal right to not care, all of us at some point don't care about someones pain, suffering etc... hell some of us revel in another's fall when it suits us.. but thats off point..
Now obviously if you're asking people to shut up about it, yes its a bit rude but true I also do get annoyed when everyone talks about the current suffering of some peeps that live far away in a zone thats known to have these kind of natural disasters..
Conclusion: You're pushing controversy with the majority of people but I don't think it makes you horrible..
TBH, there was a time when I would have called you a f***er.. but now I believe its your own personal right to not care, all of us at some point don't care about someones pain, suffering etc... hell some of us revel in another's fall when it suits us.. but thats off point..
Now obviously if you're asking people to shut up about it, yes its a bit rude but true I also do get annoyed when everyone talks about the current suffering of some peeps that live far away in a zone thats known to have these kind of natural disasters..
Conclusion: You're pushing controversy with the majority of people but I don't think it makes you horrible..
Sounds like you are just being honest, which is more than most people can say. From my experience, people only seem to care about something so that they can look good. I am not saying everyone is like this, just a lot of them.
/threadJingai09 said:
I wish our society wasn't so bent on proving the world is ending and all that sensationalism. Stop watching the news. Their ratings are what they care about. I have not watched anything news related other than Daily Show and Colbert report... and only cause they are reasonable and make fun of all the news networks.
OT: Don't over-react and yell and tell 'em to shut up. You will always look like a jerk that way. And anyone calling anyone else "Hitler" is a fucking idiot anyway. Just knowing and understanding the crisis is good enough. If you care, donate. That is all we can do.
