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Originally Posted by Ross
The people on here insinuating that because someone can care about animal abuse then they dont care about starving kids in Africa.
I care a lot about animal abuse, infact it really pisses me off how someone can be cruel to animals. However I donate a lot of my own money each year to various childrens charities. Everytime I'm at the store and my change is less than 50 pence (80 cents) I tell them to put it in the charity box to help starving kids in Africa. I wonder how much I've put in those boxes over the years.
I donate regularly to SCIAF and children in need. It is possible to care about more than one cause. Just because some people don't post about suffering children on GFY doesnt mean we don't care. When I see the responses in threads like this when its an animal being abused, I often wonder if you guys are capable of caring about anything at all. Standing by and supporting abuse like killing bulls for sport is disgusting. I hate sounding all self righteous as I am no better than any of you guys here, however I care about Animals and poor people and starving children. If you don't have anything but negative shit to say on matter such as this stay out of it and go make more money.
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that's great that you do that. but lets be honest here, you know very well that you are in the minority.
how many actually take action? how many of those who continually feign outrage at the worlds injustices actually take the time to do something about it?
it doesn't change the simple fact that when rick latona posts a video of a cat getting burned, people go ballistic and lose their minds and demand that the kids doing it be murdered in the most brutal way possible. when people post a video of a person getting burned, its just sad and gross and no one wants to watch.
with very rare exception, no one is taking time out of their busy day of eating doritos and big mac's and shitting their pants because they're too fat and lazy to leave the computer, to find out how they can ease the suffering of other people... but people have no problem letting others know how disgusted they are that a bull gets stabbed in the back.
what will they do about it?
nothing.
so whats the point of expressing outrage?
what is the total net change caused by that action? zero. and everyone knows this as they do it.
everyone knows that if they let the other 50 people here know that they are totally disgusted by what they are looking at, the total net effect of that action concerning other bulls and future bulls is "ZERO". the benefit is a person, feel good feeling about an individual letting other people know they care.
it shapes how others perceive them, and it reinforces things about themselves that they want to believe about themselves. and how many bulls will be saved? none.
one could argue that its a more brutal form of exploitation than actually being at the bullfight or being the bullfighter.
its nice that you give money to help others, but pretending that isn't a rare behavior when contrasted with the sheer volume of people who claim to care, isn't painting a very honest picture of humanity.