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None of these people are starving. They have access to food pantries, soup lines, and other community support. I'm not saying it's a nice life, but people in
by domdip 13y ago
None of these people are starving. They have access to food pantries, soup lines, and other community support. I'm not saying it's a nice life, but people in India and elsewhere are actually starving.
- timr 13y agoExactly...and also, suffering from horrible diseases that are all but unknown in the developed world. There are many places where it's impossible to get drinking water that isn't contaminated with your neighbors' feces. I can't even begin to imagine the horror of getting something like lymphatic filariasis, and having no way to prevent it or cure it. It's really difficult to comprehend how much worse off people have it in the developing world unless you see it firsthand. But it's still a false dichotomy to compare one population against the other as a form of argument. It's not as if we can turn our backs on the homelessness problem in this country because things are worse in the third world.
- DerpObvious 13y ago> They have access to food pantries, soup lines, and other community support. In many places, these resources don't account for all of the demand and have absolutely no chance of matching it.