Baby Joseph is not the only person we’ve reached out to. Many of us have been reaching out to help the victims ever since we heard about this happening to Terri Schiavo.
We really should compile a list of the people we’ve saved, and the people we’ve tried to save. Mae Maguirk, Lauren Richardson, Sun Hudson, Haleigh Poutre, Vo (I can’t remember the rest of her name, a Vietnamese refugee), and who knows how many others.
Publicity is not necessarily a bad thing. If not for publicity, Baby Joseph would almost certainly have been murdered by now.
We work to save these people’s lives because it’s the right thing to do, not because we’re a bunch of hormonal women who can’t control our emotions. Some of us are men, and I would venture to say more man than anyone too selfish to care about anyone he doesn’t know intimately.
We can’t help each person individually, but each time someone is exterminated for being disabled or near death, there is a ripple effect that puts more and more people at risk. When it reaches your circle of acquaintances, will you start to care, or will you find a new excuse for not caring?
I think that is pretty cool. I missed my last trip to Haiti because the earthquake hit just a few days before we were to leave and our flight got “removed”.
I am beginning to get the drift here that one of my paradigms has bee skewered. Usually when I see the same name in a thread title on freerepublic, I figure I am getting only a tiny sampling of what is going on in the MSM. I didn’t really notice the Bird Flu was actually a concern in the US until it wasn’t any more. I ignored the few stories on FR because I figured it was just media hype - and it was. It looks like this story is just the opposite from what some are saying.
I will say this though: If this was in the US and controlled by US law I would be significantly more interested. And considering how many babies are aborted in this country, I actually see that as the greater issue, because it is MY country, where I can make more of a difference.
>>Some of us are men, and I would venture to say more man than anyone too selfish to care about anyone he doesn’t know intimately.<<
That is one way of looking at it. Another is to say that some of us have our hands full already. How many is enough to care about? Five? Ten? A hundred? It really can wear you out to the point of illness and death. Technically, there is no a limit, so none of us can be “proud” since we have all reached a limit.
I weep for the people of Japan and Iran, and now Libya. Millions of innocents killed, maimed, tortured, losing their homes. Yet so many are focused on the media frenzy of a single baby. Don’t get me wrong. The one sheep is more important than the 99, but in that parable, the 99 are safe. Here we have millions and millions of sheep who are NOT safe, and yet so many are focused on the one. I think the only two rationals behind that are 1. it is a heartstring pulling story and 2. It has political ramifications. But since it is not my country, I can only use the political part to point out the folly of Canada and why we do not want to follow their footsteps.
It looks like this baby was saved, like so many nameless adults and children pulled out of wrecked cars and burning buildings. And that is the perspective I give it - and I applaud the individuals that saved this baby as much as those that pulled the victims from those other tragedies.