Current Events > How much of our wealth should we piss away stopping only particular atrocities?

(+) Yeah! (+)

In particular places.
For particular reason.
With particular interests.

I don't remember, "it sucks but we got to stop Kony."

Is really about saving children from chemicals?
H2O is technically a chemical, the Mediterranean is filled with it, We going to save them from drowning? No, I didn't think so.

Venezuela is going to have a crackdown its people, they're only importing 25% of the flour they need, high probability of wipe spread starvation. We going to send them $1.6m worth of food by way of rocket, 59 at a time?

/incoherent anger
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H2O does more benefit than harm.
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Is really about saving children from chemicals?
H2O is technically a chemical, the Mediterranean is filled with it, We going to save them from drowning? No, I didn't think so.

Is this a fallacy?
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when you are in a position to directly help people at the cost of just a few million dollars' worth of military tech that otherwise sits around and does nothing, you help them.

and yes we should send venezuela flour. we send israel multiple billions of dollars in hardware every year.
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Darkman124 posted...

when you are in a position to directly help people at the cost of just a few million dollars' worth of military tech that otherwise sits around and does nothing, you help them.

Then let's stop selling arms to Saudi Arabia.
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Antifar posted...

Darkman124 posted...

when you are in a position to directly help people at the cost of just a few million dollars' worth of military tech that otherwise sits around and does nothing, you help them.

Then let's stop selling arms to Saudi Arabia.

i'm down

the oil companies who have contracts with KSA aren't, so much, nor are those who benefit from oil prices being cheap
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Anarchy_Juiblex posted...

/incoherent anger

Yes, I believe so.
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>Trump needs a win
>children get chemical attacked
>Trump retaliates
>Putin threatens war
>US and Russia come to great deal
>Trump averts War in time for things to escalate with China

Like what part of 70 year perpetual war economy do people not get?

Darkman124 posted...

when you are in a position to directly help people at the cost of just a few million dollars' worth of military tech that otherwise sits around and does nothing, you help them.

getting rid of the assad regime isn't directly helping people, though

it might be a good thing for him to be gone, but the way it would improve the lives of the average Syrian is incredibly unclear considering the lack of a coherent policy we have with regards to Syrian regime change.

and of course you need to worry about the problems with public perception on the ground in the middle east
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I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say that this regime change won't be much more successful than the previous ones
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