So, to return to the good samaritan example, not attacking people > helping an attack victim > actively pursuing attackers.
Oh hell, I'm a moron, I'm always throwing myself in the way of danger to help other people, except at the time I'm way too angry to think about self-preservation. Just ask my mother, she thinks I'm going to get myself killed one day.
But that's tangible, I see something, I react. When it comes to more intangible, to things in the world which I can't directly change, then I'm a bit more philosophical about it.
But sometimes it's best not to do something, for example...someone with a drug addiction, you can only go so far to help, before you gotta sit back and let them muddle through it. You can't force people to overcome addiction, you can't force people to leave an abusive relationship, you can't save people from themselves.
That's a really hard thing to realise.
But I don't think it's bad for them to support the requests for aid from countries with problems they're not able to solve themselves
If only things were that simple. It really isn't by the way, even seemingly gifts of charity, also a political reason behind, always a debt to be paid. This is why countries always get a bit antsy when a more powerful nation offers to send in troops to help in an natural disaster, it's walking a fine line there.
well, I was being a bit esoteric (as usual)
Oh hell, I'm a moron, I'm always throwing myself in the way of danger to help other people, except at the time I'm way too angry to think about self-preservation. Just ask my mother, she thinks I'm going to get myself killed one day.
But that's tangible, I see something, I react. When it comes to more intangible, to things in the world which I can't directly change, then I'm a bit more philosophical about it.
But sometimes it's best not to do something, for example...someone with a drug addiction, you can only go so far to help, before you gotta sit back and let them muddle through it. You can't force people to overcome addiction, you can't force people to leave an abusive relationship, you can't save people from themselves.
That's a really hard thing to realise.
But I don't think it's bad for them to support the requests for aid from countries with problems they're not able to solve themselves
If only things were that simple. It really isn't by the way, even seemingly gifts of charity, also a political reason behind, always a debt to be paid. This is why countries always get a bit antsy when a more powerful nation offers to send in troops to help in an natural disaster, it's walking a fine line there.