[extropy-chat] Dead is dead

[Adrian Tymes]

--- Amara Graps <amara at amara.com> wrote:
> Why is it easier for people to contribute efforts
> (money, time, etc)
> for tragedies caused by a natural disaster than by
> those caused by war,
> genocides, deportations, etc?

Because they are manmade.  Helping the victims may
seem to tick off those who made them victims - and
thus, potentially make a victim of the donor.  Not to
mention those citizens of countries directly involved
in making that tragedy, who may have little sympathy
for "the enemy" (the Marshall Plan being one famous
exception) even if the enemy's civilians really had
little to do with the war except get displaced by it.

This is not the entire reason, but it is part of it.