This reminds me of a George Carlin bit

yes, we americans are the ONLY people to not care about things that don't directly affect us. thats why we send billions of dollars worth of food and supplies and money to other countries every year. next time i think about donating please remind me I'm an american and as such dont care

implying Pakistanis care about tragedies in America.

Remember that Scandinavian terrorist that killed over a hundred children at a youth camp? I sure don't.

As if it's because we're Americans. If you live in any other country that has ever had skirmishes with yet another country, would you hear about every single person killed on the opposing side? No. Because that is retarded. You would not hear/know about all of them and you would most definitely not remember unless you made a serious effort to. We don't not care because we're American. We don't care because we are not told through media unless you actively go looking for it and even then, not every attack in the middle east that's orchestrated by us is recorded and put of for public information. It's not like we're just these amazingly cold-hearted demons who don't care when someone dies. On top of that, it's not even a majority of America who is "outraged" when anyone in the country dies and, contrary to popular believe, there are millions of people OPPOSED to the - what is defined as a - "police action" in the middle east. Imagine that. Americans that don't like war? Impossible, right?

People in America are not inherently idiots. If any of us are, it is because they were raised that way by their parents who were raised by their parents who were, obviously in turn, raised by their own parents and it continues going back in ancestry until you find yourself in another country anyone not descended from native Americans is, you guessed it, EUROPEAN.

There are idiots in every country and while I'm find with laughing at Americans for doing retarded things, I really can't stand it when people just make fun of us BECAUSE we're American. Go ahead and call me an "Amerifag" or what have you, but it honestly does annoy me greatly.

Now to close this rant of mine; America is like every other country in the world is or was when it started. We are a very young country and became a world superpower before we knew how to walk, so to speak. I'm not saying we deserve special treatment because of that, but please try to be abit more understanding.

Bring on the red thumbs!

You can thumb me down if you want, but i didn't give two shits about either.

Dear Non-Americans,

Please keep in mind that our mass-media is completely fucked and is controlled by corporations whose only intention is making money. We only know the stories that the corporations report on, therefore we only know what they want us to know. Its not that we don't care, its that we don't know.

Sincerely, an American.

(p.s. this is the reason I don't watch the news anymore)

And you think the Pakistani's give a shit what happens to us any time? Or any other nation in the world for that matter.

No one really gives a shit about anyone else unless it directly affects them.

The American people don't care about the bombings in Pakistan because the ends do, indeed, justify the means. Im not a baby killer, but if I was in Afghanistan and I saw some kid running at my platoon with a grenade or a rifle sighted in... well, someone has to take the fall, and its not gonna be us.

People don't seem to be able to wrap their heads around the fact that in war people are going to get hurt. People are going to get killed. Innocents will die, no matter how bad you avoid it. Its a sad fact of life.

tl;dr: This post is ignorant. OP is a faggot.

I'd love to take this moment, to bring up the great irony of this political post/statement.

I'd say at least 75% of the people here are guilty of the above. You don't really care, right now people are being murdered, raped, taken, beaten, and oppressed. A species died out, a mother lost her children, a lost child died in the wilderness... suffering. Endless suffering. But do you really give a damn?

No you probably don't.

Most people think only about themselves, unconcerned about anything else. As someone hypersensitive and hyper-aware I can't help but get angry over a political post like this... because it's complete bullshit.

No one gives a real fuck, and those that pretend that they do are just giving themselves a pat on the back. "I'm a good person because I feel bad." Yeah right.

I get the point that this thing is trying to make.. but I can't help but feel that there is an extreme amount of hypocrisy going on here. It's always some middle eastern country... it's as if Russia and other places with extreme wrong don't exist. This is all so selective because it deals with American political affairs. That kind of rubs me the wrong way.

End rant here, take my comment however you want.

That's where you're wrong. It bothers and disturbs me on a very deep level that our leaders get away with this shit.

Maybe Americans care more because that drone attack was about a million fucking miles away, also it is natural to care more for your country than another, otherwise there would be absolutely no sense of national pride. The reason so many people have been outraged by American massacres in America is because they also live in America and can relate, nothing more.

Cause it's according to plan. People don't panic when things go to plan. Even if the plan is horrifying. If 100 kids die in Pakistan, nobody panics. But if one, little old school has a shooting. Well then everybody loses their minds.

implying Americans care about any others but themselves

Maybe I'm special, but I didn't give a shit about either.

An injustice to someone somewhere is an injustice to everyone everywhere

We give a fuck because this is our home. We don't give a fuck about Pakistan because we don't live there.

Proximity is very important. It's human nature...
A squirrel dying in your front yard would capture your attention more than a african child dying thousands of miles away.

It works exactly the same vice versa, what exactly is your point?