RE: Limits of Compassion: Caring About Smaller Suffering More Than Larger Suffering
Unfortunately, these readings are skewed.
We ask govern-cement to help fix the problem
but the largest part of the problem is the govern-cement.
Kids going hungry in The US?
There are thousands of free food give aways.
With understanding where these are and when to be there, a grown person needs less than $20 per week for food. That can be gotten through collecting bottles and cans.
But really, it isn't the really poor that is going hungry, it is the (usually single mother) families that make just over the "legal" limit for aid.
So much food is thrown out every day... and there is often laws to prevent you from feeding the homeless.
So, really, it isn't a problem of money, or statistics, it is actually govern-cement that prevents us from helping.
Those playing on heart strings are more correctly, part of the problem.
Yeah, food is wasted so much in society, at supermarkets, but also in homes when people cook, or after by throwing things away. People playing on heart strings are not the problem... emotional appeals are useful to get people to care about something, like offering canned food to help maybe...