They're just as much people as your neighbors. It may be the UN's job to police, but at least give some words of encouragement. 
-Penguin
You want to save the world Penquin? How about you get off the computer and go downtown and just sit and talk with some wino for a few weeks and get to know them. Maybe take them to lunch. Buy them some cigarettes...become their friend. Ask them how they ended up the way they are. Ask them about their broken dreams and lost loves. Ask them if they care about what goes on in Africa.
I have and they don't. What they care about is somewhere warm to spend the night, what their kids look like now and if they think about them and say a prayer for them at bedtime. They wonder where they'll spend the day to get out of the heat on the streets and if they can scrap together enough change for some smokes and a bottle of MadDog so they can forgot about their lives for a few hours. They wonder if anyone will care who they were when some guy finds them dead in the gutter one cold morning.
You want to save the world...go for it. It's right in your backyard. But I doubt you have the balls. Much easier for your kind to just throw a few bucks overseas and brag about how you care soooo much about mankind. How about selling that robot geek toy you made and giving the cash to a homeless shelter. Better yet, go up to a homeless guy and put that fancy NorthFace jacket you love so much, on his back. You don't have to say a word...just walk away. That's how I roll. You just type about it, and share on your Facebook page.
The man I refer to in my little story was a Vietnam vet name James. People on the street called him "Colonel". Died in my arms while we were drinking behind a liquor store. aug of 91. Columbia Missouri. I can still see the half drank bottle of vodka laying in his lap that we were drinking that day. He was a corporal actually.
