And I heard em say…

Far too many times have I heard… “But what can I do, I’m just one person.  Sure,  what’s happening is horrible, but I’m just one man!”  Seems a bit weak to me.  Just a cover.  If something were really wrong, there’s plenty you could do.  if it were your own sister or brother, you could do something.

I’m talking about alot of cases.  Starvation around the world… mass killings around the world… I don’t know what else.  There is something all of us can do.  But americans, maybe the west, maybe everyone is really just too lazy.  But I single out Americans, cause we are rich.  “I once complained because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet.”  There’s always someone worse off.  And there’s always something that can be done.

Granted, I must admit that I am a hypocrite on this.  I could be in the peace corps now.  I could give away all I had to feed the hungry.  Here’s my vein attempt to justify partially.  Doing so right now would lessen my future value.  Yes, it’s possibly to save a child right now, save 100 people.  But if I do that now, that’s all I might be able to do.  but if I graduate form MIT and do great things, then I could save 100 milliion people.  Deep, isn’t it.  Of course, it’s hard/impossible to weigh letting someone die not to save 100 in the future.

As Dilbert put it… if you were truly moral, you couldn’t justify buying/having anything as long as there was still 1 person starving.