Humanitarian Disaster

[lankeela]

Why can we not prevent people from having children when they live in deprived or disaster areas? Ever since I was at junior school there have been appeals for starving children yet they are still being born - the latest humanitarian crisis is in Afghanistan yet you would think their people are intelligent enough to not keep having more children when they can't afford to feed them.

[Khandro]

fender //not one muslim country tried to help there fellow muslims
so much for camaraderie amongst muslims, //

You do understand the difference between Sunni & Shia Muslims don't you, not to mention historic tribalism?

[naomi24]

Khandro, what’s your point?

[pixie374]

I think Hopkirk has a point, when many of your children die young, you are likely to want more. I never get why people think women wanting babies is a rational and financial, or even survival decision.
If that was the case, nobody would have any ever. By all means, offer contraceptives, for those that want them, but it's hardly surprising that this happens.

[Atheist]

lankeela, do you seriously think that your western problems will be resolved by getting people in other countries to commit collective suicide by refusing to breed?

[Deskdiary]

I feel I should qualify my “nope” answer to digging deep.

I don’t give to any charities. Any.

I won’t be so crass to say how much I pay in tax, but in my mind the amount I pay absolves me from paying anything voluntarily.

I am infinitely more wise of spending the amount of tax I pay than ANY government. The very worst people to entrust my money to is any government of any hue.

I’d rather my money go on me and mine than wasting it on charities when I have already given a large chunk of MY money to the government.

[Peter Pedant]

// not one muslim country tried to help there fellow muslims//
nope - if it is not on telly then it didnt happen
nope sorry - they may be out there but it is not televisual fare for western tv companies

[MONEILL45]

Why dont we neuter the elite establishment then we woudnt have to support sycophantic royals, lords and eton and oxbridge leeches.We might actually get a country and society run on decency and humanity instead of selfishness and greed.

[Peter Pedant]

good idea! why don't we

[Deskdiary]

My daughter has just been through her second interview for Oxford.

I can assure you MONELLI45, we are not leeches. Far from it, as a family we give more than we will ever receive.

We are normal people; we are not rich or privileged - we’ve just tried to do our best for ourselves.

IF my daughter is successful, she’d have been successful through bloody hard work.

You’ve got a poor ‘woe is me’ attitude, possibly/probably because you’ve failed in life.

[andres]

For goodness sake -it's not the numbers of children that the Afghans have. It's the fact that they are poverty stricken now. When the US pulled out and then we followed ,the World Banks froze all the Afghanistans investments in order to top the Islamists getting at them. Businesses suffered and ordinary workers in some instances have not been paid for months. People were driven from their homes and as if that wasn't enough disaster after disaster followed. Flash flooding, drought and poverty followed . These people are now in desperate need of food . Some families are even having to sell children; that's how desperate they are. All we seem to hear in the UK,apart from Covid, is how much food and drink we can stuff inside ourselves because it will soon be Christmas Day. I am sick of hearing about Christmas . And yes I have already donated.

[Khandro]

well said andres

[naomi24]

Khandro, why are you avoiding my questions?

[Peter Pedant]

good luck to the young leddy
tell her to go girl! keep it up!

I think I got my result 20 Dec 1968 - yes I remember it!
good luck indeed

[Peter Pedant]

// Khandro, why are you avoiding my questions?//

because he knows what happens to me on a regular basis
hur hur hur

I would say - and so would I! - but that is nonsensical even for mainstream AB