When you watch things on TV like children dying in other countries or...?

Question

dying of AIDS or woman and children getting raped in ROWANDA Do you think maybey we should be helping them over in other countries or Do you think OH well their is nothing I can do??

Answer 1

I always think I should be helping. It makes me so sad to see that.

But, when we see those things, we say "Oh, I need to help them!" and have it on our minds for a few days, but the truth is, we are all wrapped up in our own little world. We try to stick to helping, but eventually we slip back into worrying about the little thing that happens in our little world and we lose sight of the big picture. It's how humans are.

Answer 2

Of COURSE, we should be helping them. 5,000 children die every day from lack of clean water. Somewhere on the order of 16,000 children die every day from hunger. Food and water, our two most basic necessities, claim together the equivalent of more than SEVEN September 11ths every single day. Nearly five years and 291 billion dollars later, we're still talking about a single act of terrorism. I say there is also a terrorism of omission when the world is suffering 21,000 preventable deaths every single day, but a group of people continue to get in their over-priced SUVs, drive to the local shopping mall and spend all their money on things they don't needs, pausing only for an order of obesity and coronary disease from McDonalds. No wonder the entire 3rd world is angry. What if someone had known 9-11 was about to happen and could have prevented it, but instead went shopping? We're all guilty, and it's time we did more than look sad while watching the 6 o'clock news.

Answer 3

I think it's part of the way the world works and would rather concentrate on the politcal causes of sucht hings and inform myself of those things and be active in tryingto change those things. I also concentrate on getting knowledgabe about politics in the first place and then ordering issues in priority on my own scale which takes into account MANY factors (la lengthy answer in itself), and then realizing that somethings really can't be saved or shouldn't be first priority. I liken it to walking down a street, if you stopped and helped every homeless person on the way to work, you might never get anything done.

Oh, boy actaully too long of a question to answer right now.

Answer 4

Of course it makes me really sad, wishing I could do something. But even the UN runs away, because many times, you just have to give up. You say to yourself, these people are hopeless savages, let them die.
that sounds offensive to your politically correct sensibilities perhaps? When you hear of guerrilla militants in Africa enslaving children, forcing them to kill other children, throwing babies in bonfires, it makes you sad for their victims of course,. But what kind of disgusting excuses for human beings do such things?
That is why when dealing with people such as these, we compassion filled western civilized people retreat. Because you find out fast enough that no matter how much occupation, no matter how much you bomb them, no matter how many wars you start, these people don't change. You unfortunately find it is easier just to let their history in human or societal evolution take it's course. We in the western world have had our blood soaked, merciless village burning past as well.

Answer 5

We have suffering in are own country , you just don't see
it on T.V . We need a unified health care system , and stomp
out poverty ,improve education the list is endless,
But Bush would rather wage a war than improve his own country

Answer 6

As a person you can't change the world, only your little corner of it. AS a nation, we can bring great preasure on the world community to effect a change in the reagion.

Answer 7

I think those places are Hell on Earth. I don't know if anyone can really help, unfortunately. It makes me sick. I wish we could help them. Would be a much more worthy cause than this stupid war we're in.

Answer 8

as long as George Bush is president Africa and other countries that need our help will not receive it because it doesn't do anything for him, unless Africa starts producing mass quantities of oil they will continue to suffer until he is gone.