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The Moral Maze
Last night a summary of the dilemma was should we still cut benefits and continue to give aid to other countries who are in effect richer than us. An example given was the aid given to India - where the government has just embarked on a space programme
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.I am always in full agreement with supporting poor people in other countries - as i have said before, our fortune to be able to live here is an accident of birth, little more.
That is not the same as supporting corrupt regimes, or countries such as India which patently have resources they are not using for their poor people. the answer there must be to pursuade the indian government that starving people and a spac progrmme is a dichotomy that cannot be sustained.
Then perhaps we can examine the obscenity of welfare cuts here while we fight an unwinnable war in another country, and still consider updating nuclear weapons.
That is not the same as supporting corrupt regimes, or countries such as India which patently have resources they are not using for their poor people. the answer there must be to pursuade the indian government that starving people and a spac progrmme is a dichotomy that cannot be sustained.
Then perhaps we can examine the obscenity of welfare cuts here while we fight an unwinnable war in another country, and still consider updating nuclear weapons.
I think it's a difficult one, particularly if promises were given to the other countries in times when we were perceived to have the money to do it. As my old Dad used to say - Charity Begins at Home - I'd rather we put our own house in order - but even the poorest here is better off that some people in the third world. IMHO.
If you google, irishheart, there are a number of links, here are two http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5183290/
http://www.newscienti...cancer-detection.html
nothing in the last few years though, I don't know if there is anything more recent that I can't yet see
http://www.newscienti...cancer-detection.html
nothing in the last few years though, I don't know if there is anything more recent that I can't yet see