Are you kidding? There's no "arguments" or "logic" to be used here on either side. The good Major found something to love, and acted like he loved it, full of effort, passion, and time. End of story.
Are you really acting like it's better to help people you don't know than help someone you love? I'm sorry, if a relative/friend of mine is in trouble, they're getting all my money, and all the needy people of the world aren't getting a cent. Is animal overpopulation such a serious problem? People overpopulation is a bigger one. What other arguments do you have? Have any of you taken the time to read the actual story? Or read the actual e-mails from good old Major Dennis?
'Course not. It's too easy to find a story and spew all the bile and vitriol you have built up as some kind of sick therapy. Is this some kind of anger at the war? Or soldiers? Both those facts are irrelevant, as is the location, etc. What if this was just a person in some other random country, then it's ok, because it's not Iraq, and it's not a soldier?
What about that person who said "how dare you take up the bureaucrat's time?" Really? Bureaucrat's time isn't valuable or they wouldn't be bureaucrat's. They're there to serve, or at least that's what the job entails.
But now I'm sinking to your level, arguing when there's no argument to be made. Something good happened here. Somebody acted with love, pure and simple. Be glad.
Are you kidding? There's no "arguments" or "logic" to be used here on either side. The good Major found something to love, and acted like he loved it, full of effort, passion, and time. End of story.
Are you really acting like it's better to help people you don't know than help someone you love? I'm sorry, if a relative/friend of mine is in trouble, they're getting all my money, and all the needy people of the world aren't getting a cent. Is animal overpopulation such a serious problem? People overpopulation is a bigger one. What other arguments do you have? Have any of you taken the time to read the actual story? Or read the actual e-mails from good old Major Dennis?
'Course not. It's too easy to find a story and spew all the bile and vitriol you have built up as some kind of sick therapy. Is this some kind of anger at the war? Or soldiers? Both those facts are irrelevant, as is the location, etc. What if this was just a person in some other random country, then it's ok, because it's not Iraq, and it's not a soldier?
What about that person who said "how dare you take up the bureaucrat's time?" Really? Bureaucrat's time isn't valuable or they wouldn't be bureaucrat's. They're there to serve, or at least that's what the job entails.
But now I'm sinking to your level, arguing when there's no argument to be made. Something good happened here. Somebody acted with love, pure and simple. Be glad.