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ORIGINAL: jlf1961
No, what forms my theory of humanity stems from a stint in the military and some world travel afterwords. I have seen what humans do to each other in the name of humanity. Go to a country where they can mine enough diamonds to build a paradise and they instead spend the money on weapons to kill each other.

People are hung up with looking out for themselves that they could care less what happens to the next person. The only time you see any great "Humanitarian Effort" is when the news bombards viewers with images from some natural disaster and then it is fashionable.

Your so called bystander effect is the proof that people have no idea what compassion means. When the race has reached the point where the sight of one person in trouble does nothing to move someone to help then the race is doomed to extinction, or in the very least endangered.

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4 : to require (a word) to be in a certain case
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