If you have a good and fulfilled life then you will be able to answer this question, if you don’t then please imagine that you do to be able to answer this question.
You have a good life, you have a great job, good health, the love of your life, etc. Life is good to you.
Now imagine you take a trip to a foreign country where famine and pestilence prevail. Where the policies of one bad government after another have placed the country deeper and deeper into the hole and as such people are starving and suffering.
Next you travel to another country where a natural disasters has levelled massive sections of the cities, millions dead and millions more homeless. Everyone who is alive is suffering from disease brought by the millions of unburied corpses still stuck in the rubble of the cities and the famine that comes from a massive collapse of the infrastructure network.
Now you travel back to your home, your great home and your great job, the love of your life, and everything that you left safely there before your travels.
Do you feel guilty about having so much when others have none or have lost all and what would you do about this guilt?
Why then, if most people would do something to help someone in another country who they do not even know, feel nothing for those that have lost everything or have had to struggle for the meagre things they have within their own community?
Serious answers only pleas.
Thanks.
2007-06-17
15:10:49
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Arthur N
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