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Originally Posted by Wormius
Put on your empathy hat and try to imagine what the the person desperately trying to find out where their loved ones are is feeling.
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I know, Wormius. I'm available 16 hours/day to help. If I see something suspicious while I'm awake I'll even call it in without needing a text message to ask me to intervene. The probability of me being able to help is so low in the middle of the night, though, that I'd rather not be disturbed. I appreciate that some people don't mind being awoken with these alerts. That's great. The more people that look at an Amber Alert the better. During the night, I'd rather not be one of them.
I'm willing to help in other ways. Maybe donate some money to Missing Persons or something. I'm not completely bowing out of responsibility for helping my fellow Albertans. I get crappy enough sleeps every night, that I don't need another thing waking me up. And my daughter has the propensity to get overwhelmed with worries already that she doesn't need more. The chances of a little grade seven kid sitting in her classroom in the 'burbs having the missing key to solve an abduction in progress is so low that we don't need to be burdening her with this kind of thing.