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Originally posted by sycamore
I like the concept as a whole--give hungry people food, they may be happier and less likely to hate us. Of course, there's no guarantee of that, and I concede that it's only a temporary fix.
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While it may appeal as a "whole concept", unfortunately people can't eat concepts, even whole ones. Since it's "only a temporary fix", do you really think they'll be less likely to hate us when we <i><b>stop</b></i> giving them food? It doesn't <i>fix</i> anything, even temporaily (except perhaps misplaced feelings of guilt); it's a quick fix of feel-good.
By the time you're aware of a starving population somewhere, they're too far away and there too many of them to do anything meaningful by shipping food from here. Food isn't of fixed value. Like real estate, *location* is highly important variable in the equation. We've got lots of water in Lake Michigan, should we spend millions to ship it to areas stricken by drought?
It's a viable, working economy that feeds people, not CARE packages.