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Offlineamilibertine
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Re: I dont quite understand why we should help Japan [Re: danielx]
    #14143369 - 03/18/11 02:02 PM (12 years, 11 months ago)

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danielx said:I cant count how many hipsters in my town had to make it apparent how cutting edge and compassionate they are for donating to Japan.




So if most people are donating and you don't think Japan needs it, I'd say you're being the hipster? :smirk:

You're right though pretty much, but who cares how people spend their money.  People give money to all kinds of causes all of the world, you just don't hear about it usually unless a disaster like this happens. 

Personally, I think the way things are in America right now it's questionable whether we (the government) should give ANYONE money through normal foreign aid.  If we cut that spending out of our budget we would be in a much better position to help people who are afflicted with these natural disasters.


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Re: I dont quite understand why we should help Japan [Re: jewunit]
    #14143511 - 03/18/11 02:31 PM (12 years, 11 months ago)

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jewunit said:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_by_public_debt
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_external_debt

Aside from that situations like this aren't "What have they done for me?" type situations. Katrina wrecked a city. The earthquake and tsumai wrecked their whole country. They're really not even comparable. This will probably end up being the worst natural disaster any of us ever see. Imagine how fucking insane it would have been if something of the same magnitude happened to an underdeveloped country.




JUst did some number comparisons and it does appear as if this is 4-5 times "worse" than Katrina in terms of numerical data so far.

Gotta remember Katrina didn't only affect New Orleans.

This event sucks though; hopefully things get better quick.


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Re: I dont quite understand why we should help Japan [Re: danielx]
    #14143549 - 03/18/11 02:40 PM (12 years, 11 months ago)

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danielx said:
I have compassion for people however,

Japan is a developed rich nation. I could understand helping Haiti because they are a poor country living in mud huts, but shouldn't Japan be able to help themselves?



Did Japan send us aid during Katrina, how about the disaster in the gulf?

Sometimes it seems like alot of people jump on bandwagon donating, because they want to look like compassionate caring people, but does Japan really need the money compared to some other charitable causes?

Really, what am I missing here? :shrug:




Imagine if we were the human race instead of claimed countries and ridicilous borders. How all of our scientific research could be combined, one currency, we could spend our time and resources to colonize other planets. As one we could solve so many problems in this world...

Instead you are selfish. U NO HELP US Y WE HELP U!?:mad2: . Besides charity gets rich from us, how can we even call it charity when they claim a percentage.

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Re: I dont quite understand why we should help Japan [Re: ifoundwaldo]
    #14143570 - 03/18/11 02:43 PM (12 years, 11 months ago)

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ifoundwaldo said:
I think Japan did donate to help with Katrina relief.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_response_to_Hurricane_Katrina




thats interesting...i wonder how much of that money actually went to helping the people that were effected by katrina, cause i personally met tons of people during that time that never received any sort of help from the government and were forced to move in with family states away cause there was no way they could support themselves or their family.

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