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Originally Posted by roadkill
The question, on a philosophical level, is that even using economics in a way to help others could those genocides be stoped, for they are based on hatrid rather than economics, if countries or powerful orgiznations (such as the U.N) made it unprofitable for either the companies supplying the equepment or the countries can these genocides be stoped?
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Genocides may be influenced by hatred, but hatred and violence are always influenced by hunger. The only way to stop widespread violence is to guarantee proper living conditions to these people. Whether that is possible is a completely different issues (I think it's not). Weapon smuggling and diamond trafficking are a byproduct of the current economical situation and thus they're not really issues that can influence anything. I don’t want to sound banal, but the idea is that you need to cure the sickness first, then the symptoms.