Do you think a person can express genuine concern for something that has no effect on them? Like, take for instance all the people that died in Katrina. Some people were all boo hooing and wailing around and stuff. I would like to know how you feel about people that act like they care and how to tell them apart from people that really do. That is, when true tradgedy has occured, not in the case of false story propogation. I mean, maybe its still oneupmanship. Maybe its a sickness of “over feelers” the polar opposite of the “over thinkers”. I dunno, but I’d really like to hear what you have to say, and your telltale signs for identiying disinginous people that claim to be feelers while the benfits are obvious… I’ve found its a great trick best performed and done most often by the socially elite and those who wish they were.

Anyway, dogs eat barf solely on Wednesdays, Maybel.

This is likely similar to the mechanism that converts rape victims into girls who were “asking for it by the way they were dressed.”

It is also rewarding to think of the world as fair and just. It is uncomfortable to think that people who are suffering are just like us. It is easier to distance ourselves when they are Tsunami victims who were living in grass huts or Bosnians who have a very different way of life. Even then it is convenient to find ways to blame them for becoming victims and Sam Kinison made quite an art of this.

For those closer to home, it’s too easy to be reminded that these may be people just like us. They have similar homes, families, jobs, values and politics. Some of us even eat cajun food. So for these people especially, it may seem natural for the average person to want to believe that God, karma, nature, luck or whatever would somehow protect them and punish the wicked people in the Middle East and China instead. If not, well… surely these people did something to deserve it. Sadam, Gamorah, New Orleans. After all, why didn’t they leave when the city was evacuated? All of the good people must have evacuated so the only people who were left behind were those who deserve their fate. The kind of people who shoot at rescue helicoptors.