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Magee: Getting over the guilty conscience

The ideological question still lingers in regard to Haiti, the country devastated by an earthquake and aftershocks two weeks ago.

How can anything else like sports or business or social functions matter when so many people have died and so many are suffering?

I’ve heard it many times. Probably, so too have you.

Firsthand accounts and news reports tell us the world has rarely, if ever, seen a humanitarian horror like what Haitians are suffering. We can’t open a newspaper, turn on a television or log onto the Internet without reminders that our tough life isn’t so tough at all.

From work to sporting events and personal enjoyment of any kind, everything seems unimportant when so many are hurting.