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This is SO confusing..do you care or not (oh yeah...'lunatic'...? What is caring and how does it manifest itself in your mind?
No, I'm not letting children die through my in-action...the children are dying from disease, starvation and murder. I could sell my car today, get on a plane and fly to Darfur, drop myself down into the middle of some hellhole and still NOT save a single fucking child. I'm useless in this particular instance. THAT is what I have accepted.

Am I bummed that my skills are not what MSF wanted or needed or that I'm too old to join the military?,,,I dunno, maybe or maybe I'm secretly relieved, but that matters little.

Why do you feel the need to flame me so vehemently for this one post?

"me thinks the lady doth protest too much"

It's just the way Smash expresses himself. When we all got together in Boston, he punched us each in the face by way of greeting. True story.

Additionally, we all get frustrated when people clearly keep missing a point over and over again. Most of us just stop reading that person's posts and move on with life, some people rate them down, some people try to nicely explain the point again...Smash just berates them. Regulars are used to these things and don't question the way the forum works. /shrug

Nexa

No, I'm not letting children die through my in-action

Yes you are.

Look, I get it. You can't get past it. Congratulations on being perfectly normal and in denial.


...the children are dying from disease, starvation and murder. I could sell my car today, get on a plane and fly to Darfur, drop myself down into the middle of some hellhole and still NOT save a single ******* child.

Of course you'd save one. You could probably save dozens, maybe hundreds. You aren't going to, however. Neither am I. Neither will 99.999999999999% of human beings. Live with it.


I'm useless in this particular instance. THAT is what I have accepted.


What a load of bullshit. That is really a sufficient self denial mechanism for you? It doesn't matter if you do anything so why bother? What a fucing joke you are. Of course it would matter. IT'S SIMPLY NOT IMPORTANT ENOUGH TO YOU FOR YOU TO TRY. Why is it such a big deal? You could make a difference, you'd rather not. You'd rather drive to the mall and have cookies. Big deal, you're a person, not a saint.


Am I bummed that my skills are not what MSF wanted or needed or that I'm too old to join the military?,,,I dunno, maybe or maybe I'm secretly relieved, but that matters little.


You're not too old to sell all of your possessions, quit your job and go there and save lives. I'm not saying you should, you're the one who wants to pretend you're doing all you can. I really don't care what you do, I'd just prefer you don't practice the ludicrous conceit that somehow humans aren't inherently selfish creatures who largely don't give a flying one about things that don't impact them directly. They are. You are human. You largely don't care. Oh nos!


Why do you feel the need to flame me so vehemently for this one post?


I'm not flaming you, genius. You felt compelled to wax rhapsodic on the benevolence of humankind in RESPONSE to my post. If you can't handle my response to your attacking me, then don't.

You so don't have a clue...I haven't been to a stinkin mall in eons.

Edited, Jul 31st 2007 9:50pm by Elinda

More importantly than the ickle black babies dying, does anyone else think that the tribal terrorists must have been named by George Lucas?

I mean, c'mon. The "Janjaweed"? FFS!

I sent a bath sponge. It made me feel speshul

Not just me then.

Best fapfap movie ever!

I sent a rape kit. I had one left over from Christmas.


Regifting *****!

way too little, way too late. 26,000 troops to watch over, protect and care for over 2 million refugees in their own country.

we have around 150,000 troops in iraq and can barely hold on to bagdad. a token show of force, thats all that you are worth if you are black, not muslim, and are not sitting on a lake of oil. a token show of force is all the world thinks of 200,000 dead black people, and thousands of black raped and brutilized women and children.

a sad testiment to this country and the rest of the world. we deserve what we get and more.

That way, we can add an additional 300 million unemployed people into the country

No one ever questioned that money was more important than human life, did they?


Cause if you don't do this, you can't say you care at all about what happens there...

You can say you care, just not that you care enough to do anything to prevent children from dying.

BTW, as an aside, this "stick up for the poor Smash victim" thing never works for you, people still love me and think you're an asshole.

Sadly, Darfur isn't the only or the last place screwed over by global indifference. Usually the only people outraged or surprised by this are the developed nations. Thanks to my genes and 3rd-world upbringing, though, I'm largely immune.

Not if we want it to succeed!