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Originally Posted by BoyAlley
I honestly don't give two fucks and a blowjob about Africa. I really don't. I'm sorry, but Africa is not one of my causes.
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And there we have my whole fucking point.
You don't give a fuck about the poverty and deaths in Africa (and, I suspect, comparable extreme poverty in other underdeveloped countries).
The same goes for most people in the west.
The fact that the same goes for most people in the west is the reason that the situation in such countries isn't getting any better.
That is to say, thoughts like yours are the reason that many millions of people are dying. You're a nice, caring guy, but at the same time, you are an example of the kind of nationalism that has killed hundreds of millions of people throughout the years - more than fascism and communism combined.
You consider a car for a somewhat unfortunate American single mother to be more important than the lives of a few hundred African children. That is your right, of course, and there is nothing I can do about that, or should be able to do about it.
By the same token, at least until GFY bans me, I can - and will - say that considering a car for an American to be more important than the lives of hundreds of children is, to me, one of the most vile, disgusting things imaginable.
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Libertine if you cared so much about charity you would not be knocking other peoples efforts not ever one believes that every single bit of cash should go to africa
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I don't give a fuck about charity. What I am concerned with are the millions of people whose deaths are being ignored and even allowed by us. Kindness, charity, giving, caring - they're all nice words and concepts, and not worth anything at all compared to the lives being lost every day.
And, just for the record, and as I said before, by far the most money given to charities is given to local or national charities, operating on a local or national level. The reason I am being an asshole in this thread is not that I believe that every bit of money should go to Africa... it's that almost no money is going to Africa and other extremely poor regions of the world.