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Hot Deal....free charitable donations... www.thehungersite.com

very nice...setting this as my homepage here at work, then at home

this thread would make a very nice sticky...

-hellfreeze
 
i have done this for awhile. keep forgetting to do it everyday though. but it's a definite nice thing to do daily.
 
I just gave 1.1 cups of staple food to help a starving child reach the age of sexual maturity, so he/she can have 6 more starving children, so on and so forth. I'm such a humanitarian! 😀
 
Originally posted by: tcsenter
I just gave 1.1 cups of staple food to help a starving child reach the age of sexual maturity, so he/she can have 6 more starving children, so on and so forth. I'm such a humanitarian! 😀
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:thumbsdown:don't be a jerk.
 
This site is too well established to be any sort of scam, plus it is free to do. Charity scams are usually fake non profits who try and take peoples money with embezzled donations.
 
Originally posted by: tcsenter
I just gave 1.1 cups of staple food to help a starving child reach the age of sexual maturity, so he/she can have 6 more starving children, so on and so forth. I'm such a humanitarian! 😀
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Sad but true....
 
They make money on ad revenues, which is a legit way to get aid I suppose.
 
Originally posted by: spaceghost21
Originally posted by: tcsenter
I just gave 1.1 cups of staple food to help a starving child reach the age of sexual maturity, so he/she can have 6 more starving children, so on and so forth. I'm such a humanitarian! 😀
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Sad but true....
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Actually not as true as you would think. But just becuase something "makes sense" it must be true right? If you are going to discount humanitarian gestures and slap millions of desperate impoverished people in the face, why don't you learn something about what you are talking about?

The relationship between population growth and poverty is a very very complex relationship that turns out to be fairly unintuitive.
 
Actually not as true as you would think. But just becuase something "makes sense" it must be true right? If you are going to discount humanitarian gestures and slap millions of desperate impoverished people in the face, why don't you learn something about what you are talking about?

The relationship between population growth and poverty is a very very complex relationship that turns out to be fairly unintuitive.
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So what you're saying is, the tens of thousands of starving children who otherwise would never live to see sexual maturity but for the nutritional and medical boost they receive from humanitarian gestures do not have a significant impact on population growth? Isn't that sort of in diametric opposition to the very reason we are encouraged to donate to these causes (because lots and lots of children would die)?

I don't think anyone is suggesting that, without humanitarian assistance, the entire populace would be wiped out (except perhaps humanitarian organizations in their dire fund-raising pitches). Only that feeding these people does absolutely nothing for their situation but compound it.

But who am I to talk? I just gave $50.00 to Second Harvest. Damned compassion!
 
Originally posted by: CasmirRadon
Originally posted by: spaceghost21
Originally posted by: tcsenter
I just gave 1.1 cups of staple food to help a starving child reach the age of sexual maturity, so he/she can have 6 more starving children, so on and so forth. I'm such a humanitarian! 😀
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Sad but true....
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Actually not as true as you would think. But just becuase something "makes sense" it must be true right? If you are going to discount humanitarian gestures and slap millions of desperate impoverished people in the face, why don't you learn something about what you are talking about?

The relationship between population growth and poverty is a very very complex relationship that turns out to be fairly unintuitive.
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Bravo
 
Originally posted by: tcsenter
Actually not as true as you would think. But just becuase something "makes sense" it must be true right? If you are going to discount humanitarian gestures and slap millions of desperate impoverished people in the face, why don't you learn something about what you are talking about?

The relationship between population growth and poverty is a very very complex relationship that turns out to be fairly unintuitive.
Click to expand...
So what you're saying is, the tens of thousands of starving children who otherwise would never live to see sexual maturity but for the nutritional and medical boost they receive from humanitarian gestures do not have a significant impact on population growth? Isn't that sort of in diametric opposition to the very reason we are encouraged to donate to these causes (because lots and lots of children would die)?

I don't think anyone is suggesting that, without humanitarian assistance, the entire populace would be wiped out (except perhaps humanitarian organizations in their dire fund-raising pitches). Only that feeding these people does absolutely nothing for their situation but compound it.

But who am I to talk? I just gave $50.00 to Second Harvest. Damned compassion!
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What I'm saying is that the problem of starving people in "third-world countries" is not a direct result of their population size, in fact it is a far from linear relationship (even though it would seem very reasonable to believe it is, and until recently I did too). Your heart is obviously in the right place, and believe me, I'm not trying to sound all-knowning because I am far from it. The poverty and desperation that so many millions are experiencing around the world are due to a very complex assortment of causes, from environmental problems, to free trade exploitation, to withholding of resources by more powerful countries... and so many more problems that I couldn't pretend to be educated enough about to properly point out.

Of course one of the worst things we can do is say that just because something isn't fixing the primary problem, that we aren't going to help at all. So I'm going to shut up now, and do what (very) little I can.
 
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