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prodmerc on Nov 3, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Indonesia is burning. So why is the world looking ...

Well, it's not close to us, so people don't really care. I mean, there's people starving everywhere, but that doesn't make problems like the refugee situation any less urgent. It's all relative...

jmnicolas on Nov 3, 2015 [–]

Yeah and at one point too much bad news mean we tune it out.

I really can't suffer for Indonesia, Greece, Ukraine, Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, North Korea, Yemen, Libya, Nigeria and many more without going insane.

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