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that state of affairs is the product of haiti never getting a break.

• lmilcin 5y ago
  This is simplistic thinking. Japan is also subject to powerful earthquakes and tsunamis and was pretty poor after WW2 (for this discussion it is not important who caused it). I think it is fair to say that the natural disasters add to the problems but are not sole cause if it.
  • tptacek 5y ago
    The comment you're replying to agrees with you.
    • lmilcin 5y ago
      He may think so, but it is one thing to agree that the disasters are making it hard for Haiti to grow and another to blame disasters as the sole reason for the current situation. For me at least there is an important distinction. I will give you an example. There are children who had really tough childhood. Being extremely poor, having abusive parents, having misfortune, so on. Not their fault. Some of them grow to be criminals but a lot of them grow to be good people. "It is one thing to to agree that the childhood abuse made it hard for this kid to grow up to be a good man, and another to think it is the sole reason for his current situation."
      • tptacek 5y ago
        The comment you're replying to didn't imply that disasters are the sole reason for the current situation.
  • whydoibother 5y ago
    Poor comparison. The US isn't dumping tons of money into Haiti for infrastructure like they did with Japan post WW2.