[quote name='Teh Nitwit']I love it how you say you hate 99.9% of people posting on the internet. Do you think the people who post on the internet are very different from everyone else?:lol:[/quote]
The internet brings out the worst of the worst of people. People with no social life pop up, normal people turn into complete assholes with the audience and anonymity (see the internet
wad theory etc.).
So yes, the people posting on the internet are worse that what I run into in daily life. Especially since I sought a job in academia specifically to be able to sit in my figurative ivory tower away from the undereducated and unwashed masses. But even with that disdain, I'm still happy to donate to help them better themselves.
I don't see how whether I donate or not has any bearing on the validity of any points I made.
You're ranting that people should be donating domestically rather than giving to foreign aid. That's a fine stance, even if I disagree with it, but a pretty weak one if you're not donating or volunteering yourself. Need to put your money where your mouth is if you want your opinion to have any substance.
That stuff you wrote is just an indoctrination-induced rant, lacking any substance. I also love how righteous you are. You're definitely going to heaven.
Plenty of substance to my rant. The point is we should all strive to take care of our fellow human beings, regardless of what country the reside, the color of their skin, their religious beliefs etc. One's not much of a humanitarian if they only care for people like them. And even less so if they rant against others giving aid to foreign countries, when they don't help out domesticall themselves.
This is a land of opportunity? Are you insane? Are you even living in the US? How many college graduates can't find jobs? How many professionals were laid off just recently? Decent school is expensive and jobs are leaving this country. Yeah, things are very rosy here, idiot. You totally demonstrated your ignorance with this post.
No you're demonstrating your ignorance and ethnocentrism. Yes things are tougher than usual currently in the US. But people here still have VASTLY more opportunities than people in a third world country like Haiti have EVER had. Even in a near depression, things here are infinitely better than in third world countries.
And even those struggling who can't find jobs etc. can get unemployment, welfare, foodstamps etc. People in the US don't realize how good they have it compared to people in most of the rest of the world. Our poorest are better off than the middle class in many third world countries.
I guess my point that your money will not reach those who actually need it was lost on you. I guess you were too busy ranging in your righteous fury to pay attention to that little detail.
That's why you donate to organizations that are sending people and supplies and delivering them themselves, with the help of the US government etc., and not to places that will just pass the cash on to Haiti.
Donate to something like the Red Cross that is sending people to dig out people trapped, sending doctors to aid in the urgent need for medical care, food and water etc. Or find smaller organizations doing the same type of stuff.
Btw, I think the 200,000 Haitians lost in the Earthquake is not a tragedy. This planet is fast becoming overcrowded and Haiti has the highest fertility rate in the Western Hemisphere. Those 200,000 will be replaced in no time.
That's one of the coldest and most thoughtless things I've ever read. It takes a real sorry excuse for a human being to so callously disregard the deaths of 200,000 people.
But like I said, the internet brings out the worst social rejects in society. And all I can say is that karma is a bitch and you'll get yours (and hopefully sooner rather than later). Ignore list +1.
