How can this happen in today's World

[D14 AYS]

Just seen this on YouTube and i feel completely drained How can people starve to death in this mad,wasteful World we live in ?


http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=3v7ZQUzr0yo

[Stigmundfreud]

Africa? One big social benefits experiment. Massive fertile land only instead of teaching them to produce their own food we just hand it out. If someone was to wipe your arse every day you would soon give up trying to wipe your arse

[AngryApples]

Wow

Agree with a certain amount of the sentiment, but a little harsh, no?

[C5L]

That is heart breaking to watch, i feel sick.

[Stigmundfreud]

C5L said:

That is heart breaking to watch, i feel sick.

oh christ, how do you sleep at night?

[wiggy001]

Stigmundfreud said:

Africa? One big social benefits experiment. Massive fertile land only instead of teaching them to produce their own food we just hand it out. If someone was to wipe your arse every day you would soon give up trying to wipe your arse

+1

[robwales]

That isn't nice, I don't want to watch it all really.

Is life really sustainable in Africa with the current population growth?
Why do they continue to breed? If people around you are dying of starvation, surely you can make the connection that conceiving even more people is a bad idea?

[King Herald]

wiggy001 said:

Stigmundfreud said:

Africa? One big social benefits experiment. Massive fertile land only instead of teaching them to produce their own food we just hand it out. If someone was to wipe your arse every day you would soon give up trying to wipe your arse

+1

+1
There is more than enough wealth in Africa to go around, and they just need teaching how to utilise it, and to shoot the thieving bds in power.

[D14 AYS]

robwales said:

That isn't nice, I don't want to watch it all really.

Is life really sustainable in Africa with the current population growth?
Why do they continue to breed? If people around you are dying of starvation, surely you can make the connection that conceiving even more people is a bad idea?

We cant stop our own from breeding ! The difference is we keep them in Playstations and Nike hoodies

[Pigeon]

robwales said:

Why do they continue to breed? If people around you are dying of starvation, surely you can make the connection that conceiving even more people is a bad idea?

Biology does not value individual lives. Biology has the idea that it's better to bang out as many as possible so one or two of them might survive.

One might expect that human beings have enough intelligence to override biology but unfortunately this is not the case.

[mblade123]

Africa is one of the richest continents in the world. The mineral and oil wealth is astounding. Unfortunatly this wealth goes to a very small % of the corrupt population.
Whats more depressing is we in the "1st world" still keep giving when in fact they have the potential to sustain themselves.

[sstein]

Anyone see the glue babies on Ross Kemp in Kenya. Parent's giving children as young as toddlers bottles of glue to sniff. All these little children addicted to glue, and they just wanted to be off the glue and in education

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Stuart

[Marquis_Rex]

Pigeon said:

robwales said:

Why do they continue to breed? If people around you are dying of starvation, surely you can make the connection that conceiving even more people is a bad idea?

Biology does not value individual lives. Biology has the idea that it's better to bang out as many as possible so one or two of them might survive.

One might expect that human beings have enough intelligence to override biology but unfortunately this is not the case.

No
You're quite right because we're just animals. We like to pride ourselves that we're more, but we're just instinctive reactive animals...

[thehawk]

Stigmundfreud said:

Africa? One big social benefits experiment. Massive fertile land only instead of teaching them to produce their own food we just hand it out. If someone was to wipe your arse every day you would soon give up trying to wipe your arse

You can't teach them, there is no point. The corrupt regimes will always ensure that most of these countries will always be in poverty.

[carerra g tea]

Just spent the afternoon talking with a doctor who volunteers with Doctors Without Borders. The stories of strife and suffering are utterly gut wrenching.

[Spam]

TIA. Unfortunately it is so fking corrupt and disease ridden NO amount of help/money/food/charity etc will help.

[Stigmundfreud]

Also why do we appologise for slavery when Africa was making a mint out of European slaves for centuries?

[eldar]

Stigmundfreud said:

Also why do we appologise for slavery when Africa was making a mint out of European slaves for centuries?

And African Slaves.

[Stigmundfreud]

eldar said:

Stigmundfreud said:

Also why do we appologise for slavery when Africa was making a mint out of European slaves for centuries?

And African Slaves.

yeah but I want them to apologise for our ancestors oh and I want them to pay me compensation too

[King Herald]

carerra g tea said:

Just spent the afternoon talking with a doctor who volunteers with Doctors Without Borders. The stories of strife and suffering are utterly gut wrenching.

You don't need to talk to Medecin Sans Frontiers, just use your imagination:

Visualise the most wretched, miserable life of starvation and poverty you can, dis-homed, throw in some greedy despots, a good handful of crazed soldiers, with morals stripped away by years of war, add a total lack of medical aid, stir in some disease, rape, looting and genocide, and you have a good picture of what a fair few African countries are like as we speak.