Improving Lives - Redux

I want to add a few additional points to my entry about the hurricane improving lives.

In Southern Louisiana, place matters. It matters like no where else in America. Perhaps to Yankees, this does not make sense. But, the point here is if you are going to say something was good or bad for someone else, you need to understand what they care about.

For instance, all the fuss about between Catholics and Protestants see strange. How can they fight wars? They all believe in Christ, don't they? Not being a Christian it does not make sense. But I recognize and accept that it matters to people what church they go to. You can not take a Catholic and force them to move to a Protestant church and tell them their life is better. It is the same with living in New Orleans. To Yankees, Gentilly might seem the same as the Marigny, which may seem the same as any historic neighborhood anywhere. For people from here, for people who's families have been in the same neighborhood for generations and generations, it does matter.

That is the point. If someone's heart wants to return to a place, and they can not go, it is not the role of outsiders to tell them their life is better in the new city. Maybe in Communist Russia, but not in a modern liberal democracy.