The way to end world hunger.

[highwaystar101]

Kasz216 said:

highwaystar101 said:

I'm going to get warned for this, I can feel it. But stay with me.

 

We just stop the aid.

In "The descent of man" by Charles Darwin he wrote about how supporting the weak and forcing them to survive, we will actually be hindering our progression as a species by actually providing money and food and allowing them to reproduce. Natural selection is taken out of the equation.

He had a point.

By supporting those worse off and subsequently allowing them to reproduce and multiply then we are adding to the problem in the future instead of stopping it now.

For example. If we give one generation food now, then they may have four children per couple because we facilitated it. Then we would have to give twice as many people food the next generation, and the one after that, and the one after that, and the one after that and so on. Before you know it, you've wasted all your money and the problem is 64 times larger.

So the logical step would be to stop aid and stop them reproducing now. I know it borders on Eugenics and I too, like all of you, find that sick. But it would be a solution that could work.

(Although I would never support it personally)

Ironically, under the same circumstances you could argue for a compeltly free market economy (which nobody wants) and an abolision of all government welfare.

The thing you should keep in mind with the descent of man... is that it's pretty racist.  It suggests that there are fundamental biological differences between different races and that the "civlized" races will wipe out and replace the uncivilized ones. 

The book came from a time and a premise that stated "The White Man is farther along the evolutionary track then other such men."  Since white men due to their enviroment somehow developed more "advanced" technology.

As you and I know, there is no real difference between White and Black people outside of a few genetic diseases.  How you grow up is based on your situation and how your raised.

 

There are other possible reasons for cutting financial aid.  Such as forcing change since most countries in Africa are beholden to third world dictators... however there are still other problems.

Such as a lot of countries resources currently being under the control of outside countries.   A full out "Star Trek"... what ever the name of the rule is... type thing could theoreticaly work.  Though people would likely have to hardern their hearts to it.

 

 

Yeah, but as I said I don't particularly agree with the argument, I can just see the logic behind it.

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The descent of man was a racist book (although at the time it used socially acceptable ideas). But I was trying to take the same argument and apply it to something outside of the context of the book, so hopefully I didn't come off as sounding racist.

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I'm sure Darwin didn't mean the context to ever be used in the way I just proposed. I was asserting the point that sending aid is just inflating the population to a level where they will never be able to support themselves and the situation gets worse as opposed to better. It will mean that whatever aid we send today, we will have to send even more tomorrow. By throwing money at the problem, it doesn't go away, it only grows.