@Justicar I think you've confused my statement with the question. People should be more concerned about their own demise. Obviously the situation in Palestine is far more serious than that of the UK, but we are on a similar trajectory. If people were to focus their efforts on averting a similar situation for themselves then they would be objectively better off. The gushing of emotional hysteria and moral outrage that we see for strangers seems to be more akin to self-indulgent virtue signalling.

@SamHarris in that case the reason is quite simple - if people would be more concerned about state of UK rather than Palestine, they would have to admit there is a problem, right at their doorstep. Not on the other side of the planet. That means they themselves would have to do something about it. It is tangible, not just letters in a newspaper or images on tv screen. So if they ignore it, it does not exist and they can keep existing in the bubble, living their fantasy that everything is alright

@Justicar Good point. Almost as if they recognise the proximity of the problem, but they are able to distance themselves from it emotionally by focusing on it where it exists in far away places.