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Ignorant.

People who say we shouldn’t care so much about Japan are just ignorant.  I’ve heard from multiple people that Japan didn’t help us when Katrina hit, and that they just sent us “pocket change.”  I’ve heard people say that they don’t deserve our help because of that, and that we’re in an economic depression anyway, so we need to take care of ourselves.  And we do need to worry about our own country, but saying they don’t deserve our help is inhumane.  Natural disasters are brutal, and they’re not something we can control.

It’s so frustrating that people are so quick to dismiss things like this.  People are constantly only looking for the benefit that THEY can personally get out of things.  Japan didn’t help us, so we’re not going to help them.  What kind of a world are we going to create with philosophies like that?

If we all keep living with the general philosophy that we’re not going to help someone unless they help us, no one is going to help anyone.  Someone has to start.  Someone has to put their foot forward.  As soon as one of us makes the effort to be the bigger person, and help the other, then we can begin the process of making a better world.

But until then, we’re not going to make any progress.  We’re all just going to be power hungry, money hungry, self centered masses of people.