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The third world, poverty and our attitude towards it.

Right, we live in a pretty good society, give or take all the little things like crime and teenagers 99.9999% of us have a place to sleep, food on the table, an education, either a job or the welfare state,all coupled with a free national health service.

this is obviously from a UK perspective so apologies.

Now, we can clone sheep, put a person into space, make terribly complicated machines the size of Paris Hiltons brain (very small, see 1) in my list of pissy fits)we have amazing technological and medical inventions, yet a large chunk of the world is currently starving to death.

Why?

Very fucking simple.

Would you prefer a) Your mortgage / loan / credit card paid off / a nice shiny supercar if you have no debt or b) a village in Africa to have fresh water.

Im betting almost all of you would, being absolutely honest choose a) I would, and thats why nothing will ever get done. don't kid yourselves about it, all these hand wringing "look at this its terrible" adverts mean little or nothing to us, we just turn away, turn over or go and put the kettle on.

We just don't fucking care, harsh but true

giving £5 a month makes absolutely no fucking difference in the grand scheme of things, and because we all have this mealy mouthed "them not us, but im doing my little bit" attitude it will continue for ever.

If we can't even handle the little things in life like getting along and accepting other peoples opinions on life, religion and suchforth then there is no way to solve a huge Species wide stigmata of vast swathes of us dying for no particular reason whatsoever.

So. Stop these fucking adverts, phone-ins, charity events and do something about it people in charge, just charge everyone who earns 50% tax and do something about it and if you don't like it then you get all of your possessions taken away, get shipped out to some dusty hell on earth and get plenty of time to think about your decision as you die horribly, and slowly, and miserably.

edit: And anyone who points out "Well why don't you go out and do something about it, dig some wells etc" you are absolutely correct I haven't because im lazy, but have you? has anyone here? big fucking kudos if you have, but, we are sheep who like our creature comforts, and it irritates me that we accept this so willingly I can just start up my PS" or read a book and it all goes awasy, so you can add Global Warming to this, we aint gonna do shit about it until it means you can't watch football,go down the pub or wank over a picture of cat deeley

grrrr
(Halfy By light alone, Fri 2 May 2008, 13:46, 4 replies)

wow
you're a dangerous halfy, halfy - you have a cause.

*clicks*
(happylittletulip helpless and delicious, Fri 2 May 2008, 13:49, closed)

Like hell...
50% tax? Like fuck. Why the fuck should I work hard (well, work; wWell, show up to my office every day) if I'm only getting paid for half the time I'm there? I really couldn't give a shit about all this poverty bollocks. It's the natural order of things, survival of the fittest and that's that.

It would actually be counter-productive to mankind to take away the finer things in life. Technology and all the benefits it brings is driven by greed. Take that away and we'd be in the shit. You only have to look at the state of the USSR before it went tits up to see where sharing the wealth gets you.

Yes, it sucks that some people are dying while others drive a Veyron, but that's life. Get over it.
(ScousersPet, Fri 2 May 2008, 14:06, closed)

@ScousersPet
your reply was exactly the point im trying to make, thankyou.

Actually, fuckit, lets go the whole hog and nuke any country with a GDP less than a $1000 per head into a glowing radioactive slagheap, that would solve the problem nicely.
(Halfy By light alone, Fri 2 May 2008, 14:10, closed)

And you just have to look at the state of the USSR now
to see where unregulated capitalism gets you.

Which is why the Communist party is getting stronger over there - as worrying as that is.

I fucking hate the "survival of the fittest" argument. We're a civilised people, not animals. If you want survival of the fittest go live in the jungle.

In a civilised world poverty is not only unnecessary it's a fucking disgrace.
( chenobble rocking his explorer beard on, Fri 2 May 2008, 15:22, closed)