Why would I give up my car for a country of people who won't even try to help themselves and just kill each other?
Poll
Would you give up your car for an Iraqi Citizen?
| Yes | 16% | 16% - 19 | ||||
| No | 83% | 83% - 93 | ||||
| Total: 112 | ||||||
No. Pure and simple. If you're asking me to give up my £200 pride and joy when I have oodles of disposable income, I will call you insane. However, if you're asking me for a monetary donation so a poor person in a third world country can have something I consider to be a basic human need, tell me where to send the cheque.
Not at all. Human race is basicly based on injustice. wewill always have rich and poor people. I dont mind give something to a poor, but it surely wont be a tv or a pc only because if hes poor, first he probably dont have electricity or even a place to put them. not all iraqis have electricity too.Elamdri wrote:
Ask yourself if you're willing to give up your TV, your car, your PC, your job, your home... so someone living in Iraq can have those things.
i'd rather help my community then a country invaded by a stupid president who might have stolen his position.
Haven't read anything in this thread but the initial post. You make the false assumption that a standard of living is a zero sum game. Its not. It is not necessary for my standard of living to go down so that theirs can go up. There are pleny of other countries that I can exploit so that Iraqi's can have the nice material goods I happen to own.Elamdri wrote:
Something people tend to forget about the Third World is that the First World depends on the Third World in order to maintain it's wealth. By exploiting the people in nations like Iraq, we maintain our own standard of living. Thus, for the standard of living to go up in Iraq, the standard of living in the US and other advanced, industrialized nations must go down. It's fine and dandy to say you support the political and economic development of Iraq, but if that same development were to threaten your standard of living, would you be as OK with it? Ask yourself if you're willing to give up your TV, your car, your PC, your job, your home... so someone living in Iraq can have those things.