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Can you justify...

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Risiko

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The question:

Can you justify living a life of opulence and excess in a world where hundreds of millions face starvation, malnutrition, or extreme poverty (lacking basic things such as clean water, vaccinations, cheap medicine, adequate housing, etc.)?

I'm not trying to sway your answer one way or another - I'm simply curious to hear responses to this question.

If you will, please respond to question first, then provide an explanation (if you like), and only then read the rest of the responses. I'd like your response to be untainted by any other responses.

Thanks.
 
Can you justify living a life of opulence and excess in a world where hundreds of millions face starvation
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WTF am i supposed to do? sell everything i own and send it in one big food package to a foreign country in africa where the dictator of the day would intercept it and use it to feed his army that oppresses people and/or sell it to the people to finance his army?
 
Can I justify it?

No.

Can I live with it?

Yep.


I can't even imagine what some of the people in those areas must think when they hear about all-you-can-eat buffets and the obesity problem in the United States and the rest of the western world, though.
 
WTF am i supposed to do? sell everything i own and send it in one big food package to a foreign country in africa where the dictator of the day would intercept it and use it to feed his army that oppresses people and/or sell it to the people to finance his army?
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I didn't say you had to do anything. In fact, I didn't say that doing such a thing would be right or wrong. That's why I'm asking for your opinion. I am not insinuating anything in my post.
 
Sure. I was not put here for the purpose of doing anything besides enjoying my own life. Much as it might suck at times, life is unfair. I try and take advantage of each and every way that it's unfair in my favor. When I'm worm food in however many years, my life is not going to matter any more than anyone else's. And until my undetermined check out time, I shall do whatever within my power strikes my fancy. Really, I just feel no need to cripple myself or demote myself down to the lowest common denominator when I was given the position that I was.

-- Jack

Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead.
 
Depends on what you consider to be a life of excess. I'm not going to give away everything I earn and live a life of poverty, but on the other hand I have no desire to be wealthy, and I would hope the wealthy would feel some obligation to use a portion of what they have to improve the lives of the less fortunate.
 
I can't do anything about it, none of them are going to know me and I won't know them. Why the hell should I spend my time worrying about all the poor bastards in Africa?
 
Originally posted by: Risiko
The question:

Can you justify living a life of opulence and excess in a world where hundreds of millions face starvation, malnutrition, or extreme poverty (lacking basic things such as clean water, vaccinations, cheap medicine, adequate housing, etc.)?

I'm not trying to sway your answer one way or another - I'm simply curious to hear responses to this question.

If you will, please respond to question first, then provide an explanation (if you like), and only then read the rest of the responses. I'd like your response to be untainted by any other responses.

Thanks.
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I've always been a conservative and a capitalist and lately I've been thinking about what you have touched on....

If I was suddenly to become rich, what would I do? Even though its easy to say I have no moral inclination to help others blah blah blah in a capitalist society I still think I would feel its my social responsibility to help people out

but then that begs the question is where do you draw comfort
if you have a PC do you have too much comfort? hrm.... then again I'm drunk 😉
 
Originally posted by: loki8481
yes.

because I'm better than them. if god really loved them, he wouldn't have made them so poor 😛
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Ya, tell the lazy slobs to get a job.
 
Yes. Especally when most of the famine and deprevation is caused not by a lack of wealth but by politics and tyrants.
 
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