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Old 01-12-2013, 10:30 AM #1
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You know what pisses me off about hearing this all the time? It's the fact that I could donate every single penny of what I own. I could sell all my clothes and even my car to make money to send to Africa and it still wouldn't make the slightest difference. I can't change the fact that 1,000,000,000 children in Africa die a week, or whatever bloody statistic it is. I shouldn't be made to feel guilty about having a comfortable lifestyle.

And what these 'dead-African-children-preachers' don't get is that I give a decent amount of money to charity of all types. I gave £50 to Cancer Research. Everytime I have change in a shop, i put the last of it in the little tin for charities.... I swear all these adverts/people who preach like to think that no one does anything to help when there is a hell of a lot of people who do.

sorry for the rant, but I've seen this attitude on the forum a lot recently and it really pisses me off
It's fair enough, it's time people opened their eyes and realised that what these people (and all of the billions of people in the world not sitting pretty at the top) need is a fundamental change in global politics and an end to wealth-hoarding at the top level. Not a tin of baked beans and a mosquito net.
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It's fair enough, it's time people opened their eyes and realised that what these people (and all of the billions of people in the world not sitting pretty at the top) need is a fundamental change in global politics and an end to wealth-hoarding at the top level. Not a tin of baked beans and a mosquito net.
I think most people know that but what exactly can we do in a capitalist society? Tax the rich and global conglomerates to the point they move elsewhere? I don't want to see people killing each other in a coup and I don't want to see us the world become communist either.

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It's fair enough, it's time people opened their eyes and realised that what these people (and all of the billions of people in the world not sitting pretty at the top) need is a fundamental change in global politics and an end to wealth-hoarding at the top level. Not a tin of baked beans and a mosquito net.
..yes of course you're right but not everything will happen/change no matter how much you want it to or how much it should and sometimes a tin of baked beans and a mosquito net can make an immediate and real difference to someone's life...maybe not long lasting, but long lasting takes much longer to solve and in the meantime doing something, no matter how small is better than nothing at all and could mean a lot to someone...
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..yes of course you're right but not everything will happen/change no matter how much you want it to or how much it should and sometimes a tin of baked beans and a mosquito net can make an immediate and real difference to someone's life...maybe not long lasting, but long lasting takes much longer to solve and in the meantime doing something, no matter how small is better than nothing at all and could mean a lot to someone...
I agree
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..I guess for me it's a case of while we're discussing the rights and wrongs..(we being not people on this forum but in general..) and the time it takes for real long term and effective changes..why not donate a 'shoebox' for one child to have a Christmas smile that they wouldn't have... or something similar, sort of thing...
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