So anyway, this might sound a bit mean...

TBH I think the blobfish is a much more necessary thing to save just look at its sad face. :(

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Robbo said:
That's fairly poor taste to be honest.

I'll have the Llama.
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In all seriousness, hunger is quite a disgusting thing to have going on in today's age. I really do wonder though, African families seem to have a lot of children, perhaps a cultural thing, but why if they cannot support them all?

Also I've used discretion and stopped the llama/starving child merged image I was creating to get the best of both worlds. Cuddly llama with begging starving child face, the ultimate in guilt trips.
 
rexehuk said:
In all seriousness, hunger is quite a disgusting thing to have going on in today's age. I really do wonder though, African families seem to have a lot of children, perhaps a cultural thing, but why if they cannot support them all?
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Survival by numbers. The more you have the more chance there is of at least a few surviving. Oh and the Catholic anti-condom influence.
 
Yeah and all the "meanwhile in Africa" on every food related youtube video. Not all Africans are starving it's nothing but a guilt trip I doubt the money even reaches them.
 
rexehuk said:
In all seriousness, hunger is quite a disgusting thing to have going on in today's age. I really do wonder though, African families seem to have a lot of children, perhaps a cultural thing, but why if they cannot support them all?
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One has to wonder how involved Catholic evangelisation against birth control is involved here, tbh. Also with such a high mortality rate amongst infants I dare-say a higher birth-rate is something of an ironic necessity to sustain a population? Just a guess however.

EDIT: Brian8bit said it first. Too busy watching Democracy Now! for Troy Davis instead of typing. :p
 
Robbo said:
But does anyone else get slightly irritated by all of the humanitarian adverts featuring poor starving children being put on TV right around when you're sitting down to eat your dinner?

I know what they are going through is terrible but this does annoy me a little bit, I bet it puts a lot of people off their food, a poor rotting child covered in flies, hardly the nicest thing to look at is it. I know that is obviously the point, but still.

Has anyone else thought about that or is it just me being a bit negative/cynical?
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It the NSPCC ones that get me, I turn them over.
 
Rainmaker said:
One has to wonder how involved Catholic evangelisation against birth control is involved here, tbh. Also with such a high mortality rate amongst infants I dare-say a higher birth-rate is something of an ironic necessity to sustain a population? Just a guess however.
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To be honest, we can't support all of these people, whether it's possible or not, it simply isn't going to happen.

Having more and more and more children isn't a solution, especially when they're suffering and starving to death. It's just cruel.

Castiel said:
It the NSPCC ones that get me, I turn them over.
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They would have more effect if it didn't say in large letters at the bottom of the screen 'THE CHILDREN SHOWN HERE ARE ACTORS'!
 
Rainmaker said:
One has to wonder how involved Catholic evangelisation against birth control is involved here, tbh. Also with such a high mortality rate amongst infants I dare-say a higher birth-rate is something of an ironic necessity to sustain a population? Just a guess however.

EDIT: Brian8bit said it first. Too busy watching Democracy Now! for Troy Davis instead of typing. :p
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But to create the kids, that also requires mass food intake for the mother to create the child. Then she has to support the children she already has. It seems more logical to pop out one child and use all your resources on that child and yourself to make the best of it.

Obviously these are opinions of a western man with luxuries. Even in the UK I would have the exact same mindset. I don't want 5-6 children if I cannot financially support each one to a pre-determined level of quality.
 
rexehuk said:
But to create the kids, that also requires mass food intake for the mother to create the child. Then she has to support the children she already has. It seems more logical to pop out one child and use all your resources on that child and yourself to make the best of it.

Obviously these are opinions of a western man with luxuries. Even in the UK I would have the exact same mindset. I don't want 5-6 children if I cannot financially support each one to a pre-determined level of quality.
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As you said, in a society where men tend to dominate and birth control is taboo, it's likely not that simple unfortunately. :(
 
rexehuk said:
But to create the kids, that also requires mass food intake for the mother to create the child. Then she has to support the children she already has. It seems more logical to pop out one child and use all your resources on that child and yourself to make the best of it.

Obviously these are opinions of a western man with luxuries. Even in the UK I would have the exact same mindset. I don't want 5-6 children if I cannot financially support each one to a pre-determined level of quality.
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There's nothing logical about Africa. It's a country where the people believe that ****ing a virgin will cure you of aids, so to make sure they **** a virgin, they **** tiny babies and children.
 
Robbo said:
They would have more effect if it didn't say in large letters at the bottom of the screen 'THE CHILDREN SHOWN HERE ARE ACTORS'!
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Quite, still doesn't stop me wanting to give all my worldly goods to help them though. It is the intentional guilt trip they try to put you on that I find distasteful.

Besides the fact that TV advertising is expensive and the money would be better served helping those kids the actors are portraying rather than paying the actors portraying them.
 
rexehuk said:
But to create the kids, that also requires mass food intake for the mother to create the child.
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Not as much as you'd think. In the West we talk about eating for two, but the truth is that the body will prioritise the baby and keep you ticking over as best it can.

rexehuk said:
Then she has to support the children she already has. It seems more logical to pop out one child and use all your resources on that child and yourself to make the best of it.
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And then your one child dies of something... And you're stuffed.

rexehuk said:
Obviously these are opinions of a western man with luxuries. Even in the UK I would have the exact same mindset. I don't want 5-6 children if I cannot financially support each one to a pre-determined level of quality.
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Indeed, but here your 2 children are well medicated and fed and you're not relying on them to work the land to produce the food that you all desperately need.
 
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