I'm sure you'd feel that way if you were in one of these countries.
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I'm sure you'd feel that way if you were in one of these countries.
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Let natural selection take place when it can!
Thanks so much Wonder Lander. I really am touched by those sponsoring me despite never having met me. It fills me with hope.
I never expected anyone to donate, I just thought it would raise awareness on the board. And despite what I may have said, I also used it as a mechanism to see what the average joe thinks of the idea.
Cheers Guys.
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Too bad you weren't a more prolific high profile poster. You would have been showered with praise, adulation and numerous donations.
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Because we're all basically the same?. Ass..
This isn't true is it?
If it were, then why have most other civilisations managed to not completely fubar their countries?
I agree with helping the third world, but don't do it hiding behind parrallels and hyperbolé, just donate if you want to donate, don't tart it up to make it look like something it isn't.
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If he wanted to donate to charity why skydive? he did it to raise awareness same as this guy is doing.
Lawyers get Damn good wages don't they ?
Sacrificing that to live as best as you can on a Dollar seems Pretty admirable to me.
I cannot support you financially as I like to choose the Charity Myself, I do wish you the Best of Luck with it though
Sacrificing that to live as best as you can on a Dollar seems Pretty admirable to me.
I cannot support you financially as I like to choose the Charity Myself, I do wish you the Best of Luck with it though
why did you become a lawyer if you care about the world?
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its not the perfect analogy, or maybe it isn't so bad but.
How many people do we have on the dole here, constantly giving them handouts, a large portion of them anyway, its actually hurting them. Rather than limited benefits to help them get out there and get a job, it rather stops them getting on with their lives and making things better for themselves. Its not dissimilar to situations around the world with charities, we aren't making anything better in the Congo, infact to a certain degree we simply help keep a larger population alive than the local area can actual support, so at some point if one of these large camps is attacked, or if the fear of war pushes the AID out for a while you leave people completely on their own with no resources to die an even worse death than they would have before you tried to help.
It in no way whatsoever helps that a large portion, maybe the majority of Charities go over there helping one way while preaching that condom's are sinful and will send you to hell. Its a real problem you get church going people go their and exacerbate the problem's and they've been doing it for years.
Charity, doesn't work as proved by decades and decades of no change and only continued pain. I'm sorry, I wish life was different but frankly in many war torn countries we simply see continuing war and continuing death with the numbers growing daily. Frankly there are two options, full on invasion separation, splitting up land and hundreds of years of peacekeepers inbetween or the war ends. Its horrible to think about it, but its happening anyway, we are essentially prolonging wars which, laughably our governments probably profit off from sales of guns and technologies, supplies.
It doesn't help me want to donate when the person who now runs the charity you're raising for was incharge of Christian Aid for so long. The only thing worse than charities getting involved in peoples wars, is religious people.
Charity and AID for specific disasters is really the only AID we should be providing, relief AID for the Tsunami, for which I donated, and earthquakes, natural disasters and the like.
We simply have no business getting involved in the lives of people at war, especially when its really the natural progression of human life. We got to where we are by war, we're in two wars now which we are trying to get over as soon as possible. You don't see us supplying aid to the taliban and pleading for ceasefires rounding them up and standing inbetween our army and theres do you, no, why, because its completely and utterly beyond ridiculous. Wars, they are a part of our history and lives, we've always had them, we always will have them, prolonging them without actually stopping them does nothing, at all except extend suffering to more and more generations of people.
Put it this way, a life saved from under a building collapsed in an earthquake is a live saved, a life saved by amputating an arm that was shot in the war, simply makes an easier target to be murdered at a later date, aswell as that person living in fear for that time, knowing he's less able to defend himself, knowing the war isn't near finish, knowing it will happen eventually. What help is that.
How many people do we have on the dole here, constantly giving them handouts, a large portion of them anyway, its actually hurting them. Rather than limited benefits to help them get out there and get a job, it rather stops them getting on with their lives and making things better for themselves. Its not dissimilar to situations around the world with charities, we aren't making anything better in the Congo, infact to a certain degree we simply help keep a larger population alive than the local area can actual support, so at some point if one of these large camps is attacked, or if the fear of war pushes the AID out for a while you leave people completely on their own with no resources to die an even worse death than they would have before you tried to help.
It in no way whatsoever helps that a large portion, maybe the majority of Charities go over there helping one way while preaching that condom's are sinful and will send you to hell. Its a real problem you get church going people go their and exacerbate the problem's and they've been doing it for years.
Charity, doesn't work as proved by decades and decades of no change and only continued pain. I'm sorry, I wish life was different but frankly in many war torn countries we simply see continuing war and continuing death with the numbers growing daily. Frankly there are two options, full on invasion separation, splitting up land and hundreds of years of peacekeepers inbetween or the war ends. Its horrible to think about it, but its happening anyway, we are essentially prolonging wars which, laughably our governments probably profit off from sales of guns and technologies, supplies.
It doesn't help me want to donate when the person who now runs the charity you're raising for was incharge of Christian Aid for so long. The only thing worse than charities getting involved in peoples wars, is religious people.
Charity and AID for specific disasters is really the only AID we should be providing, relief AID for the Tsunami, for which I donated, and earthquakes, natural disasters and the like.
We simply have no business getting involved in the lives of people at war, especially when its really the natural progression of human life. We got to where we are by war, we're in two wars now which we are trying to get over as soon as possible. You don't see us supplying aid to the taliban and pleading for ceasefires rounding them up and standing inbetween our army and theres do you, no, why, because its completely and utterly beyond ridiculous. Wars, they are a part of our history and lives, we've always had them, we always will have them, prolonging them without actually stopping them does nothing, at all except extend suffering to more and more generations of people.
Put it this way, a life saved from under a building collapsed in an earthquake is a live saved, a life saved by amputating an arm that was shot in the war, simply makes an easier target to be murdered at a later date, aswell as that person living in fear for that time, knowing he's less able to defend himself, knowing the war isn't near finish, knowing it will happen eventually. What help is that.
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I agree in a way, i think. For me charity should be all about improving our country and then helping others, if we have british homeless and jobless people why are we helping others?
It might seem cold hearted but thats the way i feel. Once we have our society sorted out then fine, help everyone you want, i can't deny anyone respect who goes out of their way to help less fortunate people.
It all comes down to who is more deserving? is the man starving outside your front door less deserving than the starving man in africa?
i guess you could say there are more opportunites here than in other countries but unless we find 3 million jobs we're going to have unemployed people.
seems like i was out about 1 million jobs. According to these 2 links, that makes 600,000 jobs and 2 million unemployed.
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/CCI/nugget.asp?ID=12
http://www.hrmguide.co.uk/jobmarket/unemployment.htm
Forgot to add, i guess we blame the ****** and chavs for having too many kids.
It might seem cold hearted but thats the way i feel. Once we have our society sorted out then fine, help everyone you want, i can't deny anyone respect who goes out of their way to help less fortunate people.
It all comes down to who is more deserving? is the man starving outside your front door less deserving than the starving man in africa?
i guess you could say there are more opportunites here than in other countries but unless we find 3 million jobs we're going to have unemployed people.
seems like i was out about 1 million jobs. According to these 2 links, that makes 600,000 jobs and 2 million unemployed.
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/CCI/nugget.asp?ID=12
http://www.hrmguide.co.uk/jobmarket/unemployment.htm
Forgot to add, i guess we blame the ****** and chavs for having too many kids.
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