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Originally Posted by EddyTheDog
So we should stop all charity work in Africa and let those suffering rot?..
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Possibly. A large part of it just prolongs the suffering by making areas dependent upon aid, or keeping alive the sick enabling them to breed and multiply the problems, or even just messing up traditional local customs, the rest buys Bentleys for dictators.
Its the same as meddling in the Middle East. We end up projecting our own cultural values on places where the people couldn't be more different from us if they had fallen from space so everything intended as assistance isn't received in the same way as imagined. Quite by surprise I've ended up spending the whole of December dealing with people from Africa and the saying "every day is a school day" is an understatement!