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To be fair it isn't a matter of 'compassion or not' so much as triage. I try to do the opposite of a 'faceless million are less important than a single named ch
by Nasrudith 7y ago
To be fair it isn't a matter of 'compassion or not' so much as triage. I try to do the opposite of a 'faceless million are less important than a single named character' trope. While preventing destitution for all would clearly be the best morally and practically there is an awkward unasked questions whose only answers would be even more uncomfortable from cognitive dissonance.
"Why do they deserve this special treatment over everyone else already destitute?"
"Why not existing already funded programs that everyone else is expected to navigate?"
- EliRivers 7y agoTo play devil's advocate, perhaps we'd get more bang for our buck in this case. This particular group of people are very homogenous; same place physically, similar skills, similar experience. I would hazard that these similarities would make a program to assist them cheaper than helping the same number of other people who are much less homogenous. Cheaper and more effective to help them now than dropping them into the general purpose help mechanisms.