# nonpolar, front and center

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nonpolar-front-and-center/262553>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [September 1, 2004, 8:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nonpolar-front-and-center/262553 "2004-09-01T08:10:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![Sisyphus\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sisyphus\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sisyphus_Stone)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2004, 10:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nonpolar-front-and-center/262553/5 "2004-09-01T10:28:13Z")

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Pathetic, really.

Three thousand, five hundred people die of starvation around the world **every day - twenty-four hours**. Most of these three thousand, five hundred people are children, mostly from undeveloped, third-world countries and mostly between the ages of one to three. And you have compassion for someone whose horse dies?

I don’t know anything about your value system and what you hold dear, but I’ll reserve my compassion for the people dying of starvation. Yes, I mourn for the starving of the world and not for the pampered horse. Weird, I guess in a world where a greedy country invades Iraq for oil while undeveloped country’s people starve.

Perspective, I guess.

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