The Abandonment of earthquake victims in Pakistan including very young children to a slow death by freezing and/or disease questions the humanity of us all.

Humanity is defined by Webster's Dictionary as human nature, human race, kindliness. Presumably humanity is the trait that led to an outpouring of aid for the victims of Hurricane Katrina. However it seems that man's shadow side is often as present as his altruistic one. Recent film clips from Pakistan reveal that it is more man's inhumanity to man that is prevailing there. Film clips reveal earthquake victims (particularly children) slowly freezing to death or dying slowly from respiratory disease. One horrifying clip showsed a little boy about two going blind from untreated eye infection as there are no medical supplies. Pus covered both of his eyes as he sobs from the pain and despair he cannot control. Snow covers the ground and freezing wind flows through the tent assigned to the children that is no more than a canvas roof over an open fire. Children huddle together pressing inadequately clothed bodies as close as they can get to the poor excuse of a fire that barely sparks in the damp and freezing environment. Meanwhile down in the capital of Pakistan nuclear missiles that have cost the people their riches remain guarded and cared for around the clock. What would Viktor Frankl (Man's Search For Meaning) say about the meaning of the children's suffering? Perhaps he would ask all of us to think twice about a world where paranoid and greedy members of governments sacrifice the resources of their nations to reward arms manufacturers and punish the legitimate recipients of their country's resources and taxes. Surely more can be done for these children than the one man and his film crew getting these provocative scenes out to the world.