I've had it up to here with fucking wealthy people (relatively speaking) who believe because they spent three seconds on their cell phones giving $10 to Haiti relief that they now have a God given right to demand certain behavior of anyone else. Heaven forbid if a radio personality or the guy who writes a sports column falls out of line with the compassion fascists!
And heaven forbid if the people who actually do the real work of helping victims don't present the "appropriate" somber pall:
A humanitarian mission to aid Haitian earthquake victims turned into a major embarrassment in Puerto Rico on Friday as pictures emerged of doctors drinking, mugging for cameras and brandishing firearms amid the victims' suffering.
The ethics committee of the commonwealth's medical board said it was launching an investigation into whether those involved should be disciplined.
Puerto Rican Secretary of Health Lorenzo Gonzalez called the episode "a sad situation."
Everyone on earth who complains about this ought to be bitch slapped back into sense. Since the beginning of time people who have had to work in grim tasks have found ways to blow off steam. Soldiers do it, firefighters do it, doctors and nurses do it, people who work at funeral homes and morgues do it, etc. etc. etc. Sometimes its childish and immature, but it has also proven to be a way for empathetic human beings to deal with unpleasant shit and get it off their chest so they can go back to helping people or otherwise cope with the wreckage of human existence.
So to all the compassion fascists out there I say, grow up.
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