would you beat this guy up if he was being a complete asshole?

Oh that is real. Sadly enough that is very, very real.

 

well, it's not fucked-up.. I guess it's really dark humor, or a defense mechanism in a sense, cause.. if you're gonna be serious about really serious stuff all the time.. you'd be pretty sad.. I laugh about horrible stuff all the time, but.. deep down.. I'm not made of stone and have a heart and do feel sensitive and.. like spoiled and fat when I see people like that guy in that picture.. it hurts.. but.. what are we gonna do, you know? stop eating? stop living? it's too depressing to truly feel it the way it is..

 

All you can do is accept that it is reality and then order another pizza whilst communicating with your online friends.
Such is life.

 

No he probally couldn't even talk, so how wolud he be an asshole

 

Is he even alive?

It's sad that there are people in Hollywood who are trying to look like this guy.

 

Hell, he doesn't have to be an asshole for me to bitch slap him..... "gain some weight there skinny!"

 

most likely die if you did that... and i think he must be blind or pretty near blind now

 

nasty thing is you can SEE his shin through his skin lol... even his skin is skinny, its gunna tear pretty soon, why didnt the guys who took this pic just give him a sub or something, it woulda helped him survive for another 6mo

 

He'd have to be better off that way

 

Oh my God, I can't handle this. Wow.....as hurt as I feel right now, just seeing sonething like this, I can't even begin to imagine what it must be like to live in that condition. This hurts. I really wish I never clicked on this.

 

that guy must be a foodaphobe or something. If i was in that condition id turn to canabalism for sure, or at least eat some dirt.

 

I just wrote an essay yesterday on the topic of underpriveledged civilizations, and I touched on issues like this, but you can't begin to capture the power of the reality, or the unbelievable sorrow that images like these invoke. I hate to think that anyone in our world lives like this, but I know it is true. My God, we are so spoiled and healthy in this country, and we should never forget just how lucky and blessed we are.

This is quite a sobering reminder.

 

can this guy even walk? he has no muscle, just skin over his bones, litterally.. how can he even be alive? how can someone not die or starvation before reaching that point? how can we eat like fatasses and throw out our food when people like this starve?

 

I tried not to laugh, but the thread title made me.

I'm a horrible person

 

I don't know Penny, it is almost impossible to wrap your head around it. We are so used to having everything our way, and the United States especially, is a very gluttonous civilization, it breaks my heart to even imagine a world in which someone could reach this point of no return. I know one thing, this image is going to stick with me for the rest of my life.

 

who cares about him, he is just a biological entity, you don't need to get all lovey dovey and start crying because you saw a picture of a starving thing, or if you want to live your life like that just move to africa and help as many people as you can for 60yrs before u fart out and fade from existance, dont sit in ur nice house and complain about how good everyone has it and how selfish we are

 

Aaah, the sweet, soft sound of bitterness.

 

more importantly, why aren't YOU doing something about it instead of sitting at home and complaining about how bad everyone is, with the $30 or so dollars you pay for your internet you could have saved a poor little african child :-( how about those nice clothes damn that must be a whole family of african children, if you had only been giving enough to wear your old clothes and send the money to africa dozens of children wouldn't have starved to death!boo hoo

 

um, excuse me? I don't pay for my internet, my school does.. I'm 99lbs why not only because it's genetic but also because all I can afford to it is 1 cupof coffee every day, these days, cause I'm broke cause of fucking school tuition and board. I donate money every year, all the time, though I don't even have any money of my own at this point, I give money to the home;less, I buy those 1 dollar things at the supermarket eveery time, I donate clothes and shit to goodwill and salvation army, I do everything I can and do worry about it, a lot, and don't necesaarily advertise it cause I'm not Angelina Jolie or fucking Drew Barrymore. I care, I'm like.. the type of person who'd cry herself to sleep thinking about the misery in this wor;d, but I don't.. cause driving myself crazy isn't really something I wanna do.

and I'm really drink right now so this may sound a little dramatoic and make little sense, but don't tell me I don't gibe a shit, cause.. if someone's gonna give a shit it's me.

 

get two jobs and donate all the money to africans, quit school, you know how many lives you will save!! thousands of little african children will owe their life to you, yet, this doesn't really matter to you at all does it?when it comes down to it you would rather let a hundred thousand little africans die than you, you donate your $50 a year and it gives you peace of mind, is getting a "good" job and an "education" worth the hundreds of thousands of lives you could have saved with the same money?how much suffering could you relieve if you just devoted your one life to helping poor people in third world countries :-( but yet you won't, the $50 or whatever you donate + talking about how other people are selfish is enough to give you peace of mind