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Originally Posted by Dezzy

Sending aid to Uganda is as good as advocating their various abuses of human rights. Stopping aid won't hurt the politicians but it'll hurt the people who can oust the politicians and demand change.

Until they change their ways I'd rather the aid goes to a country that isn't completely and utterly backwards.

Or, more likely, the people will be in desperate need of food, drinking water and whatever else they need, see that the British are withholding those things because of something the vast majority of people probably aren't concerned with and think "**** those guys." Sending aid to Uganda is keeping those in need just about alive. There are far better ways to tackle problematic governments than by targeting the innocent citizens being oppressed by it. You wouldn't want benefits cut to people who need them the most in this country in order to get the government to do something else, so why would you apply that logic to another country? It's not like I don't get where you're coming from, it's just I don't see how you can think it would ever realistically achieve what you're hoping it would, when all it would do is hurt the people who need that aid and not change anything when clearly it's about ideology with these people, they fundamentally think being gay is a crime. They won't change their minds so easily.