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Originally Posted by Peaches
Bump and I've never understood why people feel the need to criticize what others donate/spend their money on.
If I want to donate to Birdfeeders of America that's my right.
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Nobody is saying that people don't have the right to do whatever the hell they want with their money.
However, if you don't understand why some people - such as me - want to discuss these things, you're pretty fucking dense. So, I'll put it in the simplest way possible.
Between the moment at which this thread was posted and the moment at which I am writing this post, roughly 100,000 (a hundred thousand) children have starved to death. They have starved to death because most of the people in rich countries don't give a fuck about what happens to these children. Those that do care are not able to save them all by themselves, however much they would like to.
Is it that fucking hard to understand?
If what I have said convinces even a single person to give a small amount of money to some charity that tries to save these children and others in a similar position, that could easily save dozens of lives. To me, that seems like a great fucking reason for one to "feel the need" to point out these things to others.
Katrina killed 2000 people. 2500 people were killed in the '41 Pearl Harbor attack. 3000 people died in the 9/11 attacks. 230,000 people died in the 2004 tsunami. 60,000 Americans died in the Vietnam war, as well as 1-2 million Vietnamese. 6 million Jews died in the Holocaust.
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9 million people (both adults and children) die from starvation each year.
14 million people die from diseases of poverty each year. Each day, more people die from poverty than Americans died in the Vietnam war. Each hour, more people die from poverty than Americans died because of Katrina. Unquestionably, not enough is being done about this.
Now, if you don't believe these millions of people aren't worth a mention, by all means, go fuck yourself
