Lord T has an article on the MonkeySphere i.e. the area within which we consider people to be our concern, our community, if you like. His Lordship says:
Your family members, close friends, close relatives, close neighbours, other friends, distant relatives, other neighbours, locals you don’t really know and down the chain till we meet foreigners in another country. Depending on our current situations depends on where we draw the line on help.
That's right - it's issues based. If it's a matter of giving charity to the starving, our Monkeysphere will be larger but if, as Lord T says, it's a question of the food chain breaking down and everybody scrambling to survive, then the MS becomes necessarily much smaller.
Many people know the Twilight Zone episode where there is a nuclear threat and one man has a bunker big enough for his immediate family. His so-called friends now become deadly enemies.
Anyway, pop over and read the whole thing.
