[Roybert]

Lemme get this straight ...

By your rationale, the fact that I care that 18K people died tonight makes me a 'joker' because I can't prevent every other person from dying from poverty every day?

You know nothing about me, son. You don't know what I donate, in both time and money, to charities and causes that attempt to prevent the needless deaths of people. This is every day out of the year, too, friend, not just the days where thousands die of a natural disaster. The very core of your argument seems to be that since I (we/society) can't prevent EVERYONE from dying from poverty/hunger/abuse/any-treatable-cause-of-death-you-can-name, we are automatically hypocrites or bleeding-hearts for feeling sympathy for the loss of eighteen thousand innocent lives that occured on one night simply because we don't express the same anguish over every other single needless death that happens.

Don't confuse your point. You are trying to excuse the fact that you don't give a [censored] over either: a) the deaths of the people in Pakistan, or B) the deaths of the impoverished that occurs every 10 seconds (or whatever other metric you choose to spout off based on someone else's post) by proclaiming that those who do care about this tragedy don't care about ALL suffering equally. You are welcome to your viewpoint, but [censored] you for making immediate value judgements on those who have expressed concern or sympathy about this earthquake based on the way you think they feel about all other suffering.

You're right ... [censored] hilarious.