Quote:
|
Originally Posted by galleryseek
aren't there areas in the US where people starve regularly?
|
The United States is the richest country in the free world. It has the wealth and power to solve it's own problems.
These poor nations have the deck stacked against them.
Sometimes it is:
1) Too much charity.
2) Corrupt politicians
3) War
4) Lack of education
And the list goes on and on.
But when you see a child of 3 years old coughing up a lung and starving to death. Rest assured that the explanations for why this is happening to them doesn't mean a hell of a lot.
If you are in a position to do something and don't to help that baby. Than you're a pretty shitty humanbeing.
No one is saying you have to fly to Niger to do hands on work or start an organization to help feed those people. Even if $0.95 of each dollar goes to some corrupt politician the little bit that gets there still helps.
Think about it...
For the price of going to a car wash you can put put a meal in the stomache of a starving child.
Even if that meal turns out to be the last meal they have on this earth. His/Her life was short and miserable, at least let them die with a full stomache.