DarthMetaKnight wrote:
b9 wrote:
i care for people who struggle that i can see in my zone of personable distance.
i will help people who are worse off than me if i know them.
I never said that we feel no compassion at all for those outside of our band I'm just saying we feel
more compassion for those in our band. That' why I said
relative indifference.
i do not talk in terms of "we". i talk in terms of "me".
DarthMetaKnight wrote:
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you should not condemn people who have made a buck or 2. they are the only people you can appeal to in times of serious trouble.
If it were that easy there would be no poverty. You can't just ask a rich person for money whenever you need it. Tell that to the 80% of the world's people who live in poverty.
i was not saying that all people with money will help all people without it. i was saying that "some" people with money will help "some" people without it. without me, my friend mark would be in a homeless shelter because i help him pay his rent and electricity.
if i had no money, i would only be able to shrug my shoulders and wish him all the best.
i have not enough money to help everyone, but i have enough to help some. my friend tammy would live a very spartan life without my help. i give her money to buy nice clothes and eat tasty food.
DarthMetaKnight wrote:
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if all the people in the world were poor, then you would have no hope of benevolent salvation.
A lot of problems for the poor are caused by the rich. If everyone was poor there would be nobody hogging all the resources and exploiting everyone else's lack of them, sounds pretty awesome to me.
if everyone was poor then they would all be poor period. you are essentially saying that if everyone was poor then everyone would be well off.
if everyone was poor, then no one would have anything.
if no one took command and mass produced, then everyone would have to work all day every day in their small plots of land in order to produce a bowl of rice or whatever that they gobble hungrily after all that toil so they can replenish their energy to perform the same task the next day.
with the corporations of today, people work for 8 hours and can then go and buy an amount of groceries that they would have no hope of ever being able to produce on their own.
you may say that people of the past could have a plot of land of about 1000 acres and grow meat and corn and timber and potatoes and milk and eggs and fruit and be happily self sufficient.
there are 6.7 billion people on the world today and there are not enough resources or land in fertile areas to be able to live that style of life any more.
today, if everyone had a plot of land to do what they liked on in a fertile area, it would be not enough to sustain them no matter what they did.
anyway my program has finished computing a new animation and i want to inspect it so see ya.