If a hurricane happens and nobody cares, did it really happen?
Yes, and you should care given the implications of this disaster and long term effects. There is also such a thing called solidarity and empathy, of which you need practice with, for the death caused by not putting in the money for infrastructure that both the coasts of southeast Africa and southeast US can corraborate to.
Why are you on the Int. Discussion board then? You don’t care for anything outside of doing troll acts of mainstream news at home.
As if he was implying he doesn’t care. He was implying that we don’t, collectively. And he’s right. Nobody cares about this beyond a brief “that’s too bad. Did you hear Aunt Peggy’s basement got flooded? Yeah it was only a foot deep but she’ll finally have to replace that awful musty orange shag carpet!”
I admit as a policy nut I like seeing parallels with worldwide events. But the matter is Santander’s post was implicitly questioning the very merit of the post standing here, on an international discussion board, with a major death toll and huge implications on what may happen next in the affected societies. We had threads on European attacks with smaller death tolls stand here as news on the basis of being unique and having wider implications on what will happen regionwide, and people did voice their condolences as they should in that trajedy with care, so I don’t see the difference here.
We’re going off topic into meta territory, which takes away from discussing the recent hurricane, so if you don’t care then just don’t post in this thread than. Don’t however steer this off-topic nor try to claim the collective into your preferential mass by stuffing words down its throat.