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Generosity
Can we assimilate the scale of this disaster into terms to which we can relate?
If only we can tie this in with some forms of “fight against terrorism”, these people are not going to get, in aggregate, what is being spent in Iraq on a daily basis. Is this it?
And aren’t we glad that not every one of us has this sort of mentality which is arrogant, ignorant and selfish. We despise people holding these values and attitudes, not because they are American, French, Japanese, German, Chinese or Australian.
There is no need for any permission to save somebody’s life.
We are not sticking our hands into some poor people’s pocket like they do in Iraq.
We are merely talking about selective compassion: about being compassionate enough to spend a thousand times more to “liberate” people who either do not want or are not ready for the values forcefully imposed upon them while being not so compassionate and start pooh-poohing all sort of excuses why we are not doing more when there is an urgent and genuine need for help.
Being selfish is not too much a sin nowadays. Generous or not is for us all to judge. There is little point to compare the generosity of a poor man who give his day’s earning of €20 with that of a billionare who give millions.
Posted on December 30, 2004 12:23 AM
Categories: Living
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