Undeserving

I have spent the past two hours in locating the suggested pictures regarding "Roma" population in Italy. I went to guardian site several times and could not find them. So never mind Roma, I would recommend reading the article written by Mechanic and Tanner. This article titled as "Vulnerable People, Groups, and Populations:Societal View" is beautifully written, comprehensive and insightful.

I don't have good impression about Gypsies, I was approached by two young girls who wanted to do "reading" on me. And I gently told them no, yet they would NEVER leave. It was as frustrating as trying to find a site having their pictures. At this point, I do not need their stories nor pictures. It's surprising that at such young age they began to solicit their clients and being very tricky and crafty. Perhaps some of you might think I transfer my anger toward them--innocent and vulnerable ones. No, I don't.
I have very unpopular view on this: they don't deserve our precious resources. We are using our resources toward an unworthy cause, meanwhile we neglect the more needy and deserving ones. Usually these people who caught our eyes and attention at the first glance before others want us to remember them as priority, this does NOT mean that they deserve our priority consideration. Many other silent vulnerable groups suffer more pains and are more worthy of our help. Cheap sympathy can be a dangerous game. Unfortunately quite a large number of people who committed to health care professions got carried away in the schemes of sympathy play. In public health, we need discerning mind to utilize our oftentimes limited resources more effectively. Sympathy without discernment is just as bad as other types of mismanagement or deliberate oppression. Though we are tempted to think the absolute equality is noble and applicable. The reality of our current human conditions would force us to be thoughtful of our public health approaches. Public health education I hope is not to produce easy-catch in sympathy-guilty-give trilogy but thoughtful and discerning policy makers.
P.S. I got e-mail from Jocelyn and was able to see these pictures. Certainly this is a sad story. Who is responsible for it? many factors including girls' own parents. Instead of focusing on the miniatured, we need to address the global health as a whole. Each culture and each society has to implement their own initiatives as they see it fits (may NOT be from our perspectives). They too also have the right to be wrong and hopefully learn from past mistakes. However, seeing the pictures does not alter my views.