"THEY CAME FIRST for the Communists,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist.
THEN THEY CAME for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist.
THEN THEY CAME for the Jews,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew.
THEN THEY CAME for me
and by that time no one was left to speak up."
Tell you what then mate let's put all these tragedies at the top of our priority list and actually do something about it.
We'll put everything else to one side because clearly this is more important than other trivial things that are going on.
We'll try to form some kind of group and actually do something pro-active and speak up for what we believe are the important things.
I'll meet you tonight about 7.30 and we'll sort it.
That sound good or have you got something more important to do?
I love how the people that parade their ignorance about the things happening in the world manage to be condescending about it.......
So what great thing have you done to try to help? Obviously you like to berate other people for being ignorant of the situation but ask yourself honestly what have you done?
Have you donated to charities that try to help?
Have you donated clothes etc. to try to help?
Have you made the ultimate sacrifice and actually given up some of your time to go out there and help where it really matters?
I'd rather be ignorant of something as tragic as this than know everything there is to know and still do sweet F.A. about it.
I'm not breating you for being ignorant at all, I'm criticising you for being smug about it & putting down those who aren't by asking what they do about the things they care about.
As to your nosy questions:
1. Why would you care, you're proud of not giving a f***?
2. There's a huge great gap between knowing everything there is to know (which no-one has claimed) and doing F.A. and knowing a bit & doing what you can. Not everyone needs to join Medecin Sans Frontiers to care or to have helped.
Don't try to cover up your failings by applying guilt to those with the conscience enough to care about things.
I'm not being smug about it. I'm also not proud of not giving a f**k.
What I'm being is honest about my priorities in life.
As much as i wish these tragedies had never happened I am far more concerned about many other things that are incredibly trivial in comparison.
I'm not trying to make you or anybody else feel guilty to cover up my "failings". Nobody should feel guilty about doing nothing. It is no different to the majority of the population.
As for the nosy questions. They were just satisfying my curiosity.
I agree entirely that we don't need to join Medecin Sans Frontiers to show we care but seriously what have you done?
I'm not trying to lay any guilt on you at all and there's no need to publicly state what you've done but just ask yourself the question.
You slate me which is fair enough. I did nothing to help at all. Despite knowing what happened I admit I did nothing. I like to think I would have helped if I could but I'd be lying to myself. I could easily have donated a few hundred quid but I didn't. I went and spent it on beer and strippers instead.
This isn't being smug. This is being honest.
I have thought about this tragedy several times in the past. Basically it's when I see it mentioned somewhere. Are you the same? Or do you just think about it randomly because it's at the forefront of your conscience. Believe me I have spent time thinking about it. It brings a lump to my throat when I see it on the news. It's capable of bringing a tear to my eye. I still haven't done anything about it. Do I care? Yes I care. Do I do anything about it? No I don't.
Did you send as much as a quid to help? If so then you did much more than me. If you only think about it when it pops up on a forum or in the newspaper then I'm afraid you don't care any more than I do.
You just like to pretend you do to cover up your own failings.
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