(December 6, 2016 at 7:25 am)alpha male Wrote:(December 5, 2016 at 4:07 pm)Shell B Wrote: I don't care what kind of thing it is. It might be *news* to me because I'm from the U.S. so it's more likely that I would know the victim, but I don't find their lives to be more important. That's not a human thing to do. If you stuck an American and a Syrian in front of me and had a gun to both their heads, I would not care for the American more than the Syrian.
Yes, you would. You would likely care for a woman more than a man. A child more than an adult. An acquaintance more than a stranger. An American more than a Syrian.
A child more than an adult, probably. An acquaintance more than a stranger, definitely. An American more than a Syrian? Nope. I couldn't even tell the difference at a glance. You're projecting your moral shortcomings onto me. Just because you think invisible borders make people more important doesn't mean the rest of the world does. I love my country. I love its mountains, oceans, Great Lakes, national parks, tenuous grasp on democracy . . . don't get me wrong. I just don't like any American strangers more than any other stranger out there, not without some background information to sway me. Think what you want, but people like me clearly don't think like people like you, as evidence by the fact that I'm okay with taking a risk to save refugees.
