Originally Posted by anticipation

I'm not attacking people because they're donating, nor am I expressing any nationalistic agenda. I'm just asking where was the support before the disaster? Where was the telethons and celebrity campaigning and massive charitable donations when there was no earthquake? People in Haiti have been suffering for longer than two or three months, people have been dying and living in abject squalor for hundreds of years. It just seems to me that people are content to let others suffer and feel no moral need to help them out unless a catastrophic event takes place. In my eyes, the only difference between pre-earthquake Haiti and post-earthquake Haiti will be urban topography. In a few years time there will not be any significant change in the lives of the Haitian people, nor any other people who are suffering, because people don't care about their fellow man.