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re: yak just for you miles, the sickening bit which this person yak cannot seem to realise is that the question: "is it worth it?" (that lives are lost for the sake of saving Indonesian lives) is exactly the same question as: "what's in it for me?"
So that, no help will ever be given if it does not reward the giver with comensurate payment of sorts, or perhaps even make a profit.

You've raised a good point with the Californian fires. Had any of our firefighters died in those fires, would this person ask the same question? Of course not! White lives for white lives is ok! Australian lives for American lives is even more ok! But Australian lives for Indonesian? Oh, no!

One doesn't do the right thing because there is a recompense at the end of it. You don't do a good deed so as to get rewarded. You just do it because it's needed. I don't care who else could have come to their aid or if when we needed them they didn't. Goodness knows what political claptrap we were going through at the time; but to shortfuse that sort of claptrap which politicians are so fond of entangling everyone in, one simply does the right thing.

This is also a loud wake up call for our military. They better get some decent equipment or we're truly stuffed. Not that I want them to be used for war but when they are used they should be at their best.
The same, of course with our men. Goodness knows how hard they've been working and how tired they were in the process.

But to ask whether the deed was worth the lives (which no one in their right mind could foresee) is utterly uphorent and a vulgar display of a shallow, insensitive, selfish character.
What's in it for me? Just that litle bit of pride and gratitude that not all the aussies are like the person who asks questions like these.