the ultimate act of compassion - Japan

[zenmaster]

Zenmaster, I assume you're referring to the media who you feel is exaggerating the crisis, rather than to our beloved norral, who obviously has good intentions?

That follow up was after some further consideration and referring to the general idea as expressed in the thread topic.

How can one begin to assume someone's actual intentions? Intentions are hidden behind the expression and are themselves some willed 'purpose'. This purpose is tied to someone's values and beliefs, which are always also associated with unconscious desires. Let put it this way, you don't necessarily want someone with 'good intentions' voting for you. I don't see this one in particular as a case necessitating some liberal 'benefit of the doubt'.

Here there is something that strikes me as an extremely fabricated pretext, seemingly for the sole purpose of manufacturing an opportunity for 'service'. I don't buy into or support every conceptualization that someone puts forth, without question, when there are genuinely real consequences to propagating so-called 'harmless' thought patterns.

The media (mostly TV) obviously does what the media typically does, in order to increase ratings.