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Originally Posted by Moses
2) No Hunger Anyplace
World hunger is awful, but is not the proper burden of US taxpayers.
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I disagree strongly with this. I think it's the burden of every "have" country to help the "have-not" countries when it comes to issues like hunger and disease. This isn't a question of a left- or right-wing attitude towards hand outs to the poor who, by a very logical argument, are where they are of their own accord and could get themselves out of that situation if they wanted. We're talking about a significant portion of the human race that had the misfortune of being born in a place that can't supply food, or where disease is rampant, and there's little or no government, education, health care, even infrastructure, to tackle the problem.
I do believe it's our duty to help them, for no other reason than the fact that we can.