Can't get my head around my colleague's beliefs

[AndHarry]

My colleague believes in absolutely nothing. Today he said that starving people in poor countries should either move or die and as long as the world is comfortable for him for the rest of his life he doesn't give a what happens to it or the people living in it. He's talked about the same sort of thing before, not in a grandstanding way but just as a matter of fact.

This is a man who is educated, widely travelled, has interests and hobbies, a girlfriend with a daughter, a good job.

I can't get my head around it. How is it possible for someone to just not care?

He was probably in a bad mood. If he actually actually had no empathy/morals and what have you he wouldn't be okay to work with and would find rewarding intimate relationship impossible. And as someone else touched on it previously how much less is he actually doing about global suffering than you or I? I think this video is related to the idea that we don't like people saying things like that bit we don't necessarily do much about it ourselves. (Contains the f word)

F* The Poor

It's the Just World Hypothesis and we all do it to varying degrees. It makes injustice and suffering more palatable.

Deepbluetr can you link us to some evidence of your statements about Mother Teresa and the free state hospitals down the road?

Looking, I can say nothing about the other available forms of medical care, but it is fairly widely accepted that Mother Teresa's 'Homes for the Dying' offered haphazard medical care, often by unqualified nuns and volunteers rather than medics, in sometimes dirty conditions, that they failed to distinguish between curable and incurable diseases, and did not offer patients in their care sufficient pain relief.

There have been various accounts by former volunteers, but the big, peer-reviewed original investigative piece is by David Jeffrey, Joseph O'Neill and Gilly Burn, in The Lancet vol 344 issue 8929, Oct 1994.

Thank you.

Excellent link headinhands!

OP this guy sounds shocking. But truth is, we're ALL a bit like this.
Every time we buy a pair of shoes, or more food than is absolutely necessary, we're foregoing the opportunity to save lives. But because we can't see it, we ignore that. At least he seems aware of his arsehole traits - most of us pretend not to have them.