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Group: uk.transport · Group Profile
Author: PalindromePalindrome Date: Jul 30, 2008 04:37
Cynic wrote:
> On 30 Jul 2008 10:09:13 GMT, fburton@ nyx.net (Francis Burton) wrote:
> >>> I am pragmatic and realise that simplistic solutions to complex
>>> problems usually do more harm than good. Oh - and charity begins at
>>> home. Because that's where you have a halfway reasonable chance of
>>> understanding the problem.
>
>> Do you believe that most international charities do more harm
>> than good, on balance? What about the relatively apolitical ones
>> like Medecins Sans Frontieres? If you have a valid argument that
>> applies broadly (as opposed to a specific cases such as the anti-
>> apartheid movement), why aren't more intelligent people bleating
>> about it? Are you doing anything to get all these harmful charities
>> shut down?
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> I believe that most international charities have negligible effect on
> the causes they serve. The biggest benefit is to the charity workers
> themselves who get a nice warm glow, believing that they are doing
> something good and making a big improvement.
You presumably believe in the invisible sky fairy too - as you seem to
have fairly strong beliefs in things that you have evidently not seen or
experienced first hand. No? I'm surprised.
There are charities that do more harm than good. But there are many,
many charities that are doing an incredible amount of good. But they
tend not to spend a great deal of money, or effort, making this obvious
to those that can't be bothered to go looking to find out more than what
is fed to them.
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Sue
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