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Originally Posted by Berger_4_
I'm just saying we should work on the problems that can be easily rectified. People are dieing of hunger, give them food. Relatively cheap, and easy to administer. AIDS drugs-extremely expensive, hard to distribute...condoms may be an option, but their cultures/gov'ts frown upon it.
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So improve their education so they will accept condoms. And again, it's not a one or the other choice, AIDS research isn't being done to the exclusion of efforts at feeding the world.
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And those last two quotes. You say that I'm asking humanity to act against its human nature by letting people die from diseases. Then you turn around and say that as a race, humans just don't want to figure out an effective way to feed everybody, which is one of the easiest diseases to rectify in the world.
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We don't because we've developed to care for our near group of people, friends and family. So yes sacrificing something to feed the world does require us to go against our nature, which we obviously don't do well (as shown by the poverty and starvation in the world). However one I think is good while the other evil (standing aside and allowing harm when action could prevent it).
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So what does people really want to do? Do we need to feel like we're helping Africa or wherever by donating to AIDS research because it's the "popular" sickness right now? Couldn't they help people who are starving just as easily? Why is there such a big movement to wipe out AIDS, yet hunger goes largely ignored?
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Good point, sometimes people contribute to the popular thing at the time, influenced by the media and such. That's just human nature. So because people are attracted to popular causes we should stop all research and let people die to reduce the population?
But I disagree that hunger is largely ignored, governments and individuals give tremendous amounts of resources to try and feed the world.