Except, in the link scenario. Stop trying to twist it. Every other country has communities that live so far from anyone that they're in trouble if they have a heart attack. But you know what? They still have something. House burning down? The local volunteer fire fighters will help you out. Not, we'll come out and put out your neighbours fire and stop and the fence line. And ignore you and refuse any offer of money to help you.

The issue is the US can't get it's shit together. And they can't get their shit together because Americans accept it. They just think "That's they're problem".

The US operates on a fundamentally different scale from most other countries. It's so big and diverse (in terms of both people and biomes) that the only effective way to organize is heavily federated. Fire laws in California are very different from in Tennessee. There are a few ways to accurately paint Americans in broad strokes, but not many.

I'd encourage you to travel around America a bit. Foreigners are often shocked by how nice and helpful people are here. Americans are by far the most financially charitable people in the world [1] but can be famously neighborly in many more ways than that.

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_charita...

America has the largest amount of recorded donations to their rather stretched legal definition of a "charity". This says a lot more about the American tax code than it does about American generosity. I'd encourage you to travel around the world a bit.

Lmfao. I’d encourage you to really look inward and understand why you’re trying to gatekeeper the definition of charity.

What pray tell makes a legitimate charity and why did you get to decide?

The linked scenario was controversial because this one small town of 2,500 chose to not help (vs. the standard proactive of other towns that do help). I'd love to use a town of 2,500's actions to define the morality of your country...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Fulton,_Tennessee#%22Pay...

>Every other country has communities that live so far from anyone that they're in trouble if they have a heart attack. But you know what? They still have something. House burning down? The local volunteer fire fighters will help you out.

You are revealing your lack of knowledge about the American wilderness simply by stating this. The US is so vast that there are massive swaths of land that you could not get a fire truck to the scene in half a day. It is difficult to imagine such a place if you have spent your life living in a heavily urbanized European country with no actual wilderness (I've seen what Germans and French call 'wilderness' and it is actually a medium-sized park)

Haha my country literally has people living on islands in the middle of a sea. We still hook them up.