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Originally Posted by Nastinate
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This shit happens in the middle east and africa every day. We all look like a buncha of asshole's when all of a sudden we give a fuck because it happens to us.
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You work hard to build a wonderful, beautiful house on a hill, with a verdant garden and well kept lawn, with ornate decorations and plenty of rooms. Due to your hard work, your bathrooms are cleaner than your neighbors kitchens. There is trust in your family, everyone generally follows the rules, and each family member usually cares for one another.
Your neighbor is constantly fighting with his friends and family; violent bloody brawls that spill over into neighboring houses and trash their property. He isn't lazy or stupid, but instead of channeling his energy into building a prosperous life and improving his property, he tries to take shortcuts. Their kids rarely care about staying in school and the girls aren't even allowed to go. There is a lack of trust in his household, and the social bonds between family members are tenuous at best as they barricade their rooms, brutalize each other, and disrespect the rules of their own house.
Eventually they look up at your house and decide they are going to leave their homes in search of a better life at your house. Once there, one of them brutally murders your daughter.
Of course we care more when it happens to us. When you see some idiot parent with two spoiled rotten hyperactive kids who destroy everything they encounter, do you go to their household and start parenting for them? What about when you're forced to adopt one of those kids and they terrorize your family? Can you honestly tell me you care more for foreign strangers than your family?
The fact that you expect everyone else to care just as much for foreign people, whose problems we aren't even capable of solving for them, as your own countrymen, just demonstrates the extent to which you're willing to ignore history, sociology, and simple basic reason. Western society didn't happen on accident, it's the result of a legacy of hard work, good values, trust, compassion, and plenty of mistakes. It doesn't make us assholes to build a beautiful life and then be angry when some slob comes and shits on it.