[vyper]

Educate the people.

kthxbye.

[an0n]

They've been trying to do that for the past 20 years. But the stupid ****s apparently can't grasp the concept that their culture is what's killing them.

[TrashMan]

Am I the only one who thinks An0ns view has some turth/merrit to it?

I mean, if they breed like rabbits and can't feed the x childern they have, why on earth do they go for the X+1+1+1+1' th child?

Education is one thing, idiocity is another.

[karajorma]

Cause when you have very high infant mortality (even without starvation) then putting all your eggs in one basket by only having 1 or 2 kids is the fast track to extinction.

[aldo_14]

Am I the only one who thinks An0ns view has some turth/merrit to it?

I mean, if they breed like rabbits and can't feed the x childern they have, why on earth do they go for the X+1+1+1+1' th child?

Education is one thing, idiocity is another.

Hmm.  Would be a mite more effective if you had spelt 'children', 'truth', 'merit' and 'idiocy' correctly, methinks.

Anyways, if you want to blame someone for Africa having too many kids born, blame the Vatican; they're the ones pushing the anti-birth control 'every sperm is sacred' agenda over there.  Perhaps the last Pope liked the idea of rampant AIDS thinning population growth or something.

[vyper]

Educate the people.

Kill the missionaries.

Better?

[aldo_14]

Educate the people.

Kill the missionaries.

Better?

How about

Cook the missionaries
Feed the people

[an0n]

Kill the people,
Kill the missionaries,
Build an airport,
Surround it with a super-mall.

[Unknown Target]

Except Africa is, by the majority, not Christian. You can't blame the pope on this one.

And anyway, the deal is in Africa, like karajorma said: you need lots of kids, because lots of kids die. it's also still a mostly agrarian society, so in order to grow food, you need workers, and what's a better labor pool than your own children? The only problem is that they're not producing enough food to feed their kids, so once they die, they still need people to work the farm, therefore, they have more children.

While an0n's view may be more "morally uplifting" in the sense that you're transferring the blame from everyone who should be helping them, to the people themselves, thus saying that they can all go to hell because it's their fault and as thus they deserve it, it's not the right view.

[karajorma]

Except Africa is, by the majority, not Christian. You can't blame the pope on this one.

You'd be surprised how much clout the catholic church has over there.

[an0n]

Sure it is, UT.

If you stop helping them, the mortality rate will sort **** out. Infertile people will **** just as much as fertile people, but have less kids, so they'll be more likely to be able to feed them.

AIDS kinda throws it outta whack a little, what with it's indescriminate killing, but eventually things will sort themselves out if you just let the excess starve.

Darwin wins again, Africa stops starving and all it costs is the lives of a few hundred million people whose net worth is about -$3.50/person.

[Unknown Target]

I could say a few pointed things about an0n's character, but I won't.

[an0n]

The simple fact is that we can't fix the problem, and by donating food and water and **** we're just prolonging it and upping the final death toll.

But if we spend the next 10 years watching Africa slowly depopulate itself, 20 years from now they'll have an actual economy and no more starvation.

[aldo_14]

I could say a few pointed things about an0n's character, but I won't.

He only really does it for the attention, anyways.

[an0n]

Of course I do. What's the point in posting at all if not to get people to read it.

[aldo_14]

Of course I do. What's the point in posting at all if not to get people to read it.

The existential pleasure of self-expression?














Hmm.  Maybe not. 

[BlackDove]

You're thinking mastrubation.

Anyway... I'm for that cooking part.

[icespeed]

Funny thing: Jesus said, "You will always have the poor among you, but you will not always have me." in response to Judas saying that some chick shouldn't pour perfume on JC's feet cos it was so expensive; they should give the money to the poor instead.

so go ahead, give money to the victims of the world, but it's not gonna make any difference, really.

[Grey Wolf]

No...but 5% is better than 0%, even if it is clothed in scumbaginess, don't you think? If you were dying, would you rather recieve 2,000 dollars for your treatment (when it really costs $10,000), or nothing?

And don't forget; 5% of their sales is a LOT of money. Not as much as the other 95%, but it's still a lot.

Yes, but you're ignoring the fact that all recognized religions, including atheism, consider putting a single dollar in Bono's pocket a sin of the worst kind, for which there is no redemption or forgiveness. Pope Leo IV based his entire tenure on the principle of "Thou shalt pay no dividends to assholes", and IIRC the Dalai Lama issued a decree to the same effect.

edit: also, what aldo said. I don't know about you, but the suffering of million is maybe not the right thing to make a buck, or a million, off of.

Making up facts really helps your argument.

I agree with your general premise, but there's no reason to strive to be an asshole while doing it.

[an0n]

I figure they might as well rape the cause.

I mean, someone might as well benefit from their suffering.