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Originally Posted by Shey
And this is why I pulled out my wallet and donated. Not a lot, mind you but any little bit helps.
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Me too, and that is why they do it. It breaks our hearts and they count on that to get us to give. Without such imagery, we would not donate. It would just be another disaster that we were detached from. Did any of you donate for Pakistan or Turkey when they had their massive quakes? Of course not. Because we didn't have to see it.
Think about all the heart breaking disasters that happen world wide every year. Floods, famine, land slides, quakes, all with 1000s of people dead BUT most of it gets more than a blip on the news. Because of this we don't open our wallets because we don't understand the magnitude of the disaster. It's not in our face, death on a massive scale, so we don't skip a beat and go on with our daily lives.
The media could do more to help people around the world if they would cover every disaster a little more. Put it in our face and make us watch it,
and we will give.