Weekend Reflection - Part 3 - Human Weakness

Now the third part of the reflection was on what we humans are doing.
Because on Sat night, someone brought up the topic of why there are poor people in the world. And so the the discussion was steered towards social justice. Quite a few examples were brought up.

Jude brought up how there is still hunger in the world, while in the US, it was documented that farmers or some organisation would rather throw away tonnes of tomatoes, than let them be sold, so that there would not be an over-supply and result in a drop in prices.

I brought up the point of how it appeared in the papers, the map of the world, and how it contrasted the numerous tsunami warning stations in the Pacific ocean compared with none in the Indian ocean.

And the other examples of how those who have are not giving to those who do not. Now I think of it, those people in melbourne protesting over the exploitation of third world countries, of Nike, of the rich-poor divide, they had a point. I used to think that they are whackos, just protesting to safeguard australian businesses.

If only the richer countries like japan, usa, australia, who set up such a network of stations had helped the poorer countries of indonesia, india, sri lanka, maldives set up one also. If the thailand tourist promotion board had not worried so much about how a false alarm would affect the economy.

And like Jude brought up, yes, so 150,000 died in this disaster, and so much money was raised to help them. But there are so many other places where hunger, sickness, poverty, abortions, drugs, suicides are killing much more. But there's nothing sensational about those, so they just get brushed past.

How reflective of the human nature, to be selfish, to want power. No wonder so much of the new testament is about loving your neighbour. And how Christ's way is not the way of the world.

So where was God in all that. He was there. Where were we humans. We only came after that. Now there are plans to build by the US to build tsunami stations in the indian ocean. Too little, too late.