It isn't inherently racism (though there is racism involved). It's more a NIMBY type effect, but in reverse, I think – “it doesn't affect me, so I don't have to think about it” type thing.

> a NIMBY type effect, but in reverse

We call that selfishness :-)

And we can't force people to help others, no matter how much we dislike the attitude.

> And we can't force people to help others, no matter how much we dislike the attitude.

We can, and we do all the time, via taxation. You're forced to pay taxes to fund the people who empty the bins in the park you never even go to.

It's a good thing.

Yeah, but taxation stops at the national border level.

Ignoring smaller numbers in eastern Europe and central Asia, the people dying from poverty and preventable diseases tend to be African, south east Asian or south American.

Yeah, but nobody's killing them on purpose (I hope!).

It's just that those regions are warm and humid, and this creates great living conditions for mosquitoes.

To make things worse, many countries in these regions are poor, so they can't afford treatment or prevention (pesticides to kill mosquitoes, draining swamps, etc.).

Rich countries in the same regions most likely don't have big problems with malaria (or if malaria is still a problem, it's probably a minor problem).

It's just "bad" geography (from this point of view) and poverty.

Florida is warm and humid

If you see someone drowning and refuse to throw them the life ring because you might damage your newly painted nails, you're not technically killing them on purpose, but you're still killing them through your inaction

I applaud your globalist approach, but nobody's really applying it. When push comes to shove, we're barely able to stand in solidarity at a national level.

It's called egocentrism.