I never said, "everybody." Many are lazy, but more are simply corrupt and they are universally ignorant and superstitious. I know and deal with people from Haiti, Puerto Rico, Gruatamala, India, Southeast Asia (and have lived there), the Phillipines (and have lived there), and West Africa, who will all tell you the same (which is the reason they left those countries). Every country in the world where poverty reigns is also dominated by the most ignorant of religions and superstitious beliefs and practices. Why don't you do a little study of the Hmong, Cambodians, Thais, Vietnamese, South Africans, Lebanese, and Egyptians (such as those I know personally) who came to this country with nothing and made wonderful productive lives for themselves.Immanuel Can wrote: ↑Thu Oct 07, 2021 9:52 pmOh, dear...it gets worse.RCSaunders wrote: ↑Thu Oct 07, 2021 9:42 pm Are you talking about retarded people? Unless there is some kind of mental defect, anyone who really wants to can learn to read, write, and do simple arithmetic. It doesn't cost money to read and write--just hard work.
RC, we're talking about people in the Developing World. I'm afraid you're going to have to leave your First-World bubble to find out how sadly wrong you are. Corrupt governments, constant wars, few schools, no money, no sanitation, theft, death, dirt, and a daily struggle for survival that you cannot possibly imagine...unless you've been there. And the people who suffer are ordinary folks like you and me, but who have grown up without advantages, and have no way of knowing how to get any, or what to do if they had them. Yet, if you give them one crack of hope, they leap through it, and take it with an industry and devotion that none of our spoiled, First World brats ever seem to have.
But you have to see it to believe it.
Go visit Haiti, or Colombia, or Kenya...meet those people. While you're there, do something to help them out. Then tell me how everybody there is just a lazy fool, like you believe.
"But it's not their fault," the sentimentalist meddlers cry about the, "disadvantaged." Well, it sure is hell isn't the fault of those, "disadvantaged," who did something on their own to make a life for themselves, which nobody is making a fuss over but are generally condemned and called, "selfish," because they don't want what they worked so hard to produce and make of themselves taken away from them to, "help," (squander on) the, "unfortunate."
“It is not right to take the children’s bread and toss it to the dogs.”
Whether voluntary or involuntary (foreign aid), this principle has proven itself true over and over:
"Do not throw your pearls (what's truly valueable) before swine (those incapable of appreciating value). If you do, they may trample them under their feet, and then turn and tear you to pieces."
But the sentimentalist altruists refuse to learn from history.