Yeah...thats not human nature "doc". In the West, people act civilized most of the time. In the 3rd world...a place that you've only seen on TV, people act like animals. They breed, they spread disease, they destroy...and thats why all the 3rd worlders need to stay where they are instead of turning our country into a cesspool.
Some take the other approach and assume that since others have been able to perhaps they could to. Instead of leaving them to die, fight etc (I mean the children over there are not to blame but suffer) we help. We keep trying to help even in the face of adversity, like slavery, like segregation, like gay rights.
It's what's right, if rightness exists, which is really a function of logic.