[Sighs] Is that the only quote they could get? There had to be at least one person who said, "Wow, that was bad. I'm going to have to figure out a way to safeguard my family from that sort of experience in the future."

It seems to me a natural disaster like that is no one's fault, no one's responsibility (choice of locale, if you had one, aside). But...the media here seems to be pushing a total abdication of personal responsibility for what needs to happen AFTER the disaster.

Government and international disaster aid and long-term relief is necessary, clearly. But I have trouble with a mindset that says any people in this world in such a terrible situation should be encouraged to just shrug their shoulders and say, well, I guess we're gonna have to sit here and die of thirst and disease until "they" fix it for us.

Or am I being completely irrational and insensitive?


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