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Why does it take a major disaster to motivate us, en masse, to help our fellow man?

Asked by Blondesjon (33994points) January 21st, 2010

Why can’t we all get together and eliminate homelessness or skyrocketing health care costs like we do when the news media shoves a disaster in our face? Imagine this kind of financial outpouring being applied to cancer research, to our educational system, or to any of the other problem that plague our society.

Why can’t we all get together and VOTE like this? Clean up our garbage like this? Eliminate our dependency on fossil fuels like this?

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