Human Nature

[Ivan Denisovich]

Or they simply don't give a shit. I don't really believe that people want to be decent. They may want others think  that they are decent but that's quite the difference.


Or we would simply pay more for some goods or go without some luxuries. This is irrelevant however as I don't see worldwide protests against money being wasted on frivolities when there are thousands starving.

A very large number of the starving and malnourished people of the world have money for food.  A surprising number of them are in agriculture.  More than enough food is made.  Far more.  Hunger in the world right now mostly boils down to market disparities.  That it doesn't make financial sense to send (or sell) a product to a place where you could only get half (or less) the dollar amount for it as some other market.  Point being, continue to spend on your frivolities...it really isn't what's making people hungry.  Alot of the time, your frivolities are the only reason they have any money to buy the odd bit of starch that comes along.

And yet despite (allegedly) having money they starve thus only proving my point about unkindness of human animal. Maybe my frivolities don't harm anyone (and maybe they even help which I doubt) but certainly such money could be spent better and yet they aren't. What a piece of work is man, indeed.

Per UN site main cause of hunger seems to be conflict. Where is pressure on politicians to help stop it? Where are protests? Perhaps West wouldn't be able to permanently end world conflicts but it sure as shit could do much more than it does. Humans however often don't have sympathy even to those living in the same country much less to those living far away.