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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. 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.
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You left out the part about going over to his house for 60 years wreaking the place and telling him how to live. You make it sound like we are all over here minding our own business. That is exactly the opposite of reality.
Heres an analogy for ya.
Man the Akbah's house has really looked like shit since I had accidently lite the garage on fire the last 4th of july bbq. They need to put up some new siding and paint that fucker. And whats with him and his wife fighting all the time, I only fucked her once. Gonna go over there and set this right. He better not lock the door again, my foots still bruised from kicking it in the last time.
How about you pick up a history book and read about the middle eastern governments and society pre WW2 before the west got involved. We have destabilized the entire region to the point where mass killings happen on a daily basis.
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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.
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He's been watching us drive to work everyday off oil wells we planted on his front lawn and sipping starbucks we could afford, you know with gas prices these days.