Height of Ridiculous

Everyday life is a lot less stressful if you just lose all faith in humanity.

i think that saving the hungry is an extremely profitable venture in the long run

On August 04 2011 17:38 byrnesam wrote: Everyday life is a lot less stressful if you just lose all faith in humanity.

true for me as well, as im coming to learn this

picture makes me sad :[

i think if we invested more in the war on drugs and took care of those more violent problems we could go on to solve hunger shortly thereafter

Somalia has plunged again since a government was reinstated in 06, they were growing and doing quite well in the middle of that chaotic anarchy.

^this famine is not the results of the central gov't, it's mainly the result of weather pattern shifts combined with some warlord hording.

On August 04 2011 21:07 palak wrote: ^this famine is not the results of the central gov't, it's mainly the result of weather pattern shifts combined with some warlord hording.

and living on a planet run by a species that doesn't deploy its resources in the most efficient way to ensure that all members of the species are able to eat.

So Brett... When the fuck are u gunna start getting into Politics for realsies?

On August 04 2011 23:57 k2o4 wrote: Show nested quote + On August 04 2011 21:07 palak wrote: ^this famine is not the results of the central gov't, it's mainly the result of weather pattern shifts combined with some warlord hording. and living on a planet run by morons within the species that don't deploy its resources in the most efficient way to ensure that all members of the species are able to eat.

FYP and I'm going to play devil's advocate here and say it's not that people don't see profit in it, it's that they DO see a shit load of loss in it. Can you imagine how much money it would cost to feed 10 million people?

The World Food Program estimates that 10 million people already need humanitarian aid.

Let's say everyone gets 1 meal a day, conservatively obviously. And let's say each meal only costs $1.50. And let's say this drought/poverty in somalia only lasts for another year, again conservatively. You're looking at spending $15 mil a day for 365 days. Not including a fuckton of shipping costs.
source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07...st-humanitarian-crisis-_n_894072.html
It's just unrealistic to help so many.

It's not unrealistic to help so many - we have the food and the ability to move it to them. It's just "expensive" to help so many, so we don't do it. We're held back from helping people because of a thing we made up.

On August 04 2011 20:35 nolan wrote: i think if we invested more in the war on drugs and took care of those more violent problems we could go on to solve hunger shortly thereafter

instead of spending money in the war on drugs and regulating every aspect of my life etc. better let ppl choose themselves what they want to buy and spend money to help poor ppl.

Biggest problem is you are essentially investing in helping other people who will not be able to pay back the favor. In financial theory, When you give something like a service or a loan, in this case we are providing food for people who are in need, you expect something back in return later. The idea is that when you allow someone to borrow something you deserve interest on the borrowed items. Here, even if many of these people get the resources they need, there is no guarantee that they will ever be in a state to make up for what was borrowed.

Yes, I am aware that there is no moral obligation considered in this theory. But even if you go out of your way to help others in countries that are suffering there is no telling how long your charity can last and it might not even help at all in the long run. The most ideal way to fix the situation is to give developing countries a way to produce and import themselves but some areas are in such a state of disarray that organizing this is almost impossible.