| ▲ | beanjuiceII 9 hours ago |
| so all these other countries could provide the funding they need, but wont? |
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| ▲ | AlotOfReading 8 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Leaving aside that USAID was hugely important to US soft power and the hopefully universal goal of preventing Ebola outbreaks, other people being shitty isn't an excuse to be shitty ourselves. |
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| ▲ | sejje 8 hours ago | parent [-] | | So giving them billions of dollars was shitty? Helping these folks should be something we want to do as humans, not as part of our political cycle, or something our government forces us to do, IMO. Has any critical commenter here contributed funds to this new ebola outbreak? Or do you just want to mandate that other people donate? | | |
| ▲ | AlotOfReading 8 hours ago | parent [-] | | Thanks for asking. My non-tax medical aid dollars go to Project C.U.R.E. They haven't responded to this specific event yet because international ocean shipping isn't well suited to first response situations, but they'll eventually have supplies to help. How do you choose to help? [0] https://projectcure.org/ |
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| ▲ | sejje 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Can't the Congo itself fund a $23 million effort to save its own citizens? |
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| ▲ | testdelacc1 8 hours ago | parent [-] | | No, because they’re resource cursed. Not everyone has the luxury of a working government. | | |
| ▲ | perks_12 8 hours ago | parent [-] | | They are also at war, they are fighting against the Rwanda-funded M23. |
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| ▲ | mint5 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| If you saw an guy on the floor gasping for someone to help with his asthma inhaler while other people simply walked by, would you walk by thinking yeah I could help him but other people aren’t so tough cookies, I’m not either. Fill in any situation where someone is in need, one has the ability to help with little inconvenience, but one choose not to because other people aren’t helping. |
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| ▲ | smallerize 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| It's not easy to replace a $25 billion global organisation in a few months. |
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| ▲ | paulcole 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Yes, that’s exactly what’s happening. It’s not right or wrong, it’s just the decisions we’ve made about the kind of world we choose to live in. Think about other problems like hunger or health care in the United States. These are problems we have created for ourselves! We could choose to fix them and instead choose not to. |
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| ▲ | prmph 8 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Indeed, most of the problems in the worlds are there because we don't actually want to fix them. There's more than enough resources to provide every single person a reasonable existence; We just don't think the homeless, for instance, should be freely helped to get housing. Nah, can't have that, how else can we point to "those" people as examples of the kind of life not conforming gets you? We'd rather millions go to bed hungry instead of not propping up national markets by destroying food and providing subsidies. | | |
| ▲ | blargthorwars 8 hours ago | parent [-] | | We make it hard on ourselves: With spare change, we could house every homeless person in a tent in a temperate environment in a remote location. Instead, we house a tiny few in nice apartments in high COL cities. | | |
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| ▲ | giardini 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | "fix them"?! You mean throw millions of our dollars at other country's problems every year. A million here, a million there, after awhile it starts to add up. | |
| ▲ | pfisch 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Some problems are much easier to solve than others. The problems you are bringing up are far more intractable and far harder and more expensive to solve. | | |
| ▲ | mindslight 7 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Domestic hunger is really not a hard problem to solve. Rice, beans, and vegetables cooked in bulk and handed out at every fire station. | |
| ▲ | paulcole 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | OK they’re harder but they’re also potentially more important and valuable to solve. They’re still solvable but we simply do not value solving them. |
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