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UO Players Donate Virtual Gold for Tsunami Victims
J. R. Cook writes "A man by the name of Crazy Joe recently set up a site to start taking donations of virtual gold to convert them to real life gold on ebay. All proceeds made from the auctions are being sent to the Red Cross for help with the Tsumani fund in Asia. Crazy Joe has houses set up on every server in Ultima Online to accept the donations. You can take your character to the houses to donate your gold in-game. He's raised hundreds of millions of gold which in turn can be converted to thousands of dollars."
Your argument has one flaw. You are assuming that if they donate, they won't play anymore. This is clearly not necessarily true. If someone will play regardless, they can produce extra contributions by turning their in-game items into more cash, possibly more than their subscription cost.
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This allows you donate something even if you don't have much money or are just a kid on an allowance. Very good idea.
Look, these problems with foreign countries cannot be solved by force of arms. We need to take every opportunity to reach out within reason. Giving aid to millions of innocents struck by a natural disaster is the definition of humanity.
"Health economy, outsourcing, poverty, education" are nearly trivial at this point for people struggling for survival. I hope no one takes this attitude with you should you, God forbid, ever be in a similar situation.
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Except for 'Big natural disaster', this applies equally well to the USA's own cinema-style terrorist attack on 11/9/2001 -- would you have been happy if the rest of the world had shrugged their shoulders and carried on as normal? And that was less than 4000 people. The tsunami has *killed* over 100,000, with many times more injured both physically and mentally.
It's the biggest natural disaster for many years. If it had killed on US soil we'd be hearing about it continuously for *decades*.
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I guess you opposed all the post 9/11 aid the US received from around the world then?
Actually a force of arms will help. Believe it or not, if the benevolent countries did not swoop in with aid and arms small not so benevolent groups would and try to take advantage of the sitution. These people need food,water,shelter and protection. The rebuilding they can take care of themselves, otherwise we would be putting them out a job if we did it all for them.
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There's a world of difference from being a Nazi (or even any variety of anti-semite) and trying to be prudent.
It's a bad thing for your country to reject aid workers because of their national origin (and in this case, religion).
It's worse, however, if you allow those workers into your country-- and are unable to keep suicide bombers from attacking them and killing innocent people.
A simple fact of the matter is that Sri Lanka is predominantly Muslim, which as a faith is largely benign, yet does seem to have the largest share of people who are willing to die as long as they take who they perceive as an enemy to their faith with them.
It's just irresponsible to basically create a situation in which a local extremist can easily and cheaply attack some Israelis -- espescially since extremists are not noted for minimizing innocent victims. ('The victims were not innocent. They shouldn't have accepted help from [Israelis]'). Extremists tend to have an 'If you're not with us you're against us' mentality, leaving no room for anything in between.
An attack on an Israeli aid group is probably the most likely in this Muslim country, and an attack on ANY aid group make other countries providing aid think twice about continuing support.
Yeah, it looks really bad; but the alternative is quite likely to end up being worse.
There are plenty of countries that need help, and many don't have anything against Israel. It's not like Israel won't be providing aid. I prefer this headline to 'Islamic extremists destroy Israeli aid station in sri lanka, hundreds dead'.
Yes, it's unfortunate that humanity still carries this kind of hatred around. But pretending that it doesn't exist won't make it go away.
-- Sometimes you have to turn the lights off in order to see.