Easy to be glib and sardonic about it. It conveniently relieves you of all responsibility to do anything and gives you a perfect excuse to refrain from helping (in your own mind anyway).
But in any case, sorry to disappoint you but I am not some idealistic crusader. I chose the world hunger thing not as a call to action, but merely to point out the idiocy of the Newtown imbeciles who are crying for gun control over an infinitesimally small amount of people while orders of magnitude higher children die every day and no one barely mentions it.
I could have titled the thread. "How many people have died in the last 2 weeks from legal prescription drugs"? Where is the outcry to ban them from the media? Oh I forgot, the pharmaceutical industry is like the number one advertiser on all the major networks' nightly news. Can't have any negative reporting on them even though virtually every one of these whacked out shooters in the last 10 years has been on some SSRI like prozac.
Or: how many people have died in the last 2 weeks since Newtown in Western Europe (with roughly the same population as the U.S. but with strict gun control) from being fatally stabbed, bludgeoned, bombed, poisoned, strangled etc.
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Originally Posted by TheSquealer
If taking such an action would end hunger, people would be doing it. The truth is that it wouldn't end, much less change anything. Some people might be helped, but overall, shitty countries will still be shitty countries, rogue governments and brutal dictatorships will remain unchanged, fanatical extremists will still be fanatical extremist, shitty economies will still be shitty economies, failed states will still be failed states, Africa will still be Africa etc etc etc.
Keep dreaming though... its kinda cute.
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