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Response to Marrah_G (Reply #11)

Sat Oct 18, 2014, 12:40 AM

13. It's not about any particular place.

 

It's about the whole concept of "extreme poverty" as opposed to...I dunno...regular, run of the mill poverty?

Of course there are different levels. But the point is, it's wrong for anyone to be kept at any level of poverty.

(I'm not talking about religious orders in which vows of poverty are part of the deal...or about people once in privilege who have chosen to "live simply". Those are entirely different things).

The effort should be to lift all out of poverty...to, at least, get everyone to where they have three meals a day, shelter, access to medical care, education, and the means to express themselves and preserve their culture(at least to the degree that that culture doesn't harm anyone).

Not that everybody would have a Mercedes(I'm not sure most of the people who have high-priced "things" like that should have them, but it's not likely that you'll get people's hands off of their toys).

The "extreme poverty" meme is about wealthy people picking and choosing among the world's poor(many of whom are poor because of the actions of said wealthy people)as to which are worthy of some pathetically tiny measure of relief and which are miserable but not miserable ENOUGH to be given even some extra crumbs.

There's a level of moral insult in that concept that is unforgiveable, in my view. And I'm hopefully not alone in that.

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