Honestly, who cares about Africans after all? Obviously we don't. Rich companies, especially those dealing with the oil industry pretty much buy the countries and get them to work for cheap, emptying their country of valuable resources. If they didn't do this, they wouldn't be poor, but we've pretty much blocked off the trades with a lot of countries.

WE make them poor to take advantage of them and benefit from them. While it sounds like a terrible thing that one child dies from starvation every time you take a breath, how many of you keep this murder in your mind all the time? Clearly not as often as you could.

But what's most important to you, the lives of thousands of strangers that will not accomplish anything in life, or to have 30% lower taxes than what you could have? While you would all most likely say that the lives of humans are most important, think about it for yourself. Would you really want to be very poor, have rags for clothes, not be able to have a car, get no education, all for the lives of a thousand complete strangers with no education anyway?

My point is: YOU are ruining their lives already, and all you do is to donate a few coins every now and then to feel good about saving lives. But honestly, if you kill a 100 people and manage to save the life of one, is that really something to feel good for?

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