(August 14, 2012 at 7:40 pm)Minimalist Wrote: No one is ever going to give you the Humanitarian of the Year award. divi Tiberio. Not that you seem to want it.By giving aid to foreign countries like Ethiopia, we've killed / endangered far more people than we would have if we'd left them alone. Without aid, a lot of those million people would have died. With it, millions did die, and millions are still dying. As counter-intuitive as it sounds, "more food" isn't always the answer to the problem of "starving people". At some point, the population will just become too large for the amount of food that can be obtained.
Quote:As has been noted above, people are not going to calmly sit there starving to death. They will make a lot of trouble on the way out.Sure, but I don't see why this means we should be helping them. We are part of the problem already; the humane thing to do would be to get their population under control.
