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Originally posted by Melcheor:
All these adverts do is show just how narrowminded people are. The issue isn't the "sickening" exploitation of the 9/11 tragedy, the issue is that these adverts show american* people how wrong their priorities are, and they dont like it; hence the ban. You like to think that the people who are suffering are the ones who are to blame, because that absolves you from the guilt you have not being able to help them.
Most humanitarian problems happen because of natural disaster coupled with corrupt government. These adverts are not just a political scam, they are meant to create political pressure.
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Actually, it just reflects one of our specific morality distinctions. Our government is supposed to protect us from being molested by tragedy and war and strife. Ergo, it is the proper place for our government to come in and put an end to a military/warlike threat, such as terrorist attacks, or to help in a time of disaster, Katrina being a fine example of a tragedy where the government should have helped (how good a job they did is another topic, sadly).
But, we do not see it as the purview of our government to feed every hungry mouth and care for every sick person. Here or abroad. It's a government, it's not Jesus Christ. And, to be fair, we like to think that people who are suffering *from certain things, such as hunger or poverty* are the ones to blame because lots of times it's true. We have too many self-made people here who have worked their ass off to want to dole stuff out for free. Free-riders are an injustice, and no less culpable than others who are unjust.
For a personal take on this: As a kid, my father had a dirt floor in his house in Appalaicha. He had no opportunity for college despite good grades, so he went to work at the lowest of the jobs in his company and worked himself up the ladder to an engineer position. From the trailer in a holler he lived in, he sent his son (me) to the best education he could afford, which wasn't much, and he bested his father's income by age 30. It took me until age 31 to best my father's income. We worked through 3 generations to overcome poverty. We don't like giving shit away to those who were too lazy to do what we did.