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Originally Posted by JinnKai
Simple refutation? There's a difference between what we did and what we SHOULD do. No one can argue that we're more productive in destruction and violence then we are in creativity and sharing. Which SHOULD we do? The answer is simple; avoiding violence progresses society, and sticking to archaic ("hey look, the monkies do it too..") values degrades society. Which would you rather be a part of?
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sure you could sum up what you said as, "What would Jesus Do?"
but that's not the reality of the world. A great number of countries are fraught with graft and corruption. Where I sit now there are skyscrapers when 10 years ago there were none. Are the people any better off? Usually construction means jobs, jobs mean taxes, and better life for many. But no.. there's still lots and lots of poverty here in the Philippines because people are people. The Marcos regime stole billions of aid from the gracious US government and they kept it from the masses and used it for their own luxury. It's still happening to this day just on a smaller scale.
I'm not saying that I don't want to strive for a higher place, but the cold reality of it is that while we sit in our comfortable houses with electricity and temperature controlled living with food in an icebox, and armchair monday morning quarterback there are people just down the road from me in shanties and happy to get a nickel for making a simple sampaguita (flower) headpiece.
Skogafoss was at a public school yesterday where the japanese rotary club donated 15 computers to a school of 3,000 students. She's trying to get them to get books at a cheap price but even that is difficult when there's 3,000 schools and only enough funds for 50 to get books.
It isn't as simple as wishing it or talking that it should be different, one has to actively make a change. We figured out that it only costs about $2,000 to get simple books to these kids per school.
People get violent for lots of different reasons, some countries it's because they don't have food or medicine. Others like America, it's because someone made someone else feel bad.
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