The continuing ordeal of Terri Schiavo together with Compassion Fatigue by Susan Moeller have inspired this post.
(Compassion Fatigue has long been known to the scientists as a syndrome of "secondary stress disorders" found in those that "treat the traumatized".
(Compassion Fatigue now appears to have jumped that population boundary and is spreading rapidly to the general population via the compassion focused media)
It is much better for individual billionaires to champion individual compassionate causes that require concerned attention (and money) than to ask all of us to worry about all of them (and to force the taxpayers and those coerced by unfunded mandates of governments run amock to put up the funds).
Encourage the wealthy to fund and manage the many worthy causes through specialized charitable foundations.
Such as a Reasonable Extended Life Support foundation.
I, and I expect, the vast majority of Americans, are enthusiastically in favor of the funding by the wealthy of whatever causes they may find worthy.
And we are all getting sick and tired of the too often picking of our pockets through governmental action under special interest activist and media pressure.
And sick and tired of gross governmental mismanagement of both our money and the compassionate causes used as a sort of bait and switch.
And sick (sub-clinical Compassion Fatigue Syndrome, actually) and tired of the media telling us that we ought to be real, real worried about each of the multitudinous specialized varieties of causes of suffering in the world today.
Billionaires Into the Breech. I expect that they will be better managers of compassionate causes than the government.
And if not, who cares? It is their money and their cause.
Hey, Compassion is working for the political conservatives.
Billionaire! Lead the Fight against Compassion Fatigue Syndrome!
Put Compassion to work! And do it Your Way!!!
