It's never nice to have a light shone on your greed, is it?
Give me a break. It's not an "appeal to pity" fallacy. This is _exactly_ the time when someone should point out the less well off in the world. When my parents told me not to waste food because others were starving in the world I kind of took that reasoning to heart. When someone moans that a measly millions dollars wouldn't do it for them, I'm going to call them out. In the context of global hardship anyone telling me that one million dollars is not enough to set you up for life, even in the wealthiest countries in the world, is just plain deluded and greedy. Oh, and voting me down for pointing this out is pathetic. Whoever did that should be ashamed of themselves.
They're calling you out for being stupid. The problems of people in Somalia have very little to do with any American's day to day life.
When my parents told me not to waste food because others were starving in the world I kind of took that reasoning to heart.
You should have thought before just mindlessly agreeing with your parents. The food that you don't eat isn't suddenly going to be magically transported to places where people don't have food. The real reason why you shouldn't waste food is because it's wasteful and implies needlessly inefficiency. By reducing inefficiency it may be possible to actually free up resources to help people.
Give me a break. It's not an "appeal to pity" fallacy. This is _exactly_ the time when someone should point out the less well off in the world. When my parents told me not to waste food because others were starving in the world I kind of took that reasoning to heart. When someone moans that a measly millions dollars wouldn't do it for them, I'm going to call them out. In the context of global hardship anyone telling me that one million dollars is not enough to set you up for life, even in the wealthiest countries in the world, is just plain deluded and greedy. Oh, and voting me down for pointing this out is pathetic. Whoever did that should be ashamed of themselves.