If you give a poor starving street child money, then there will always be a ready supply of miserable visibly starving children for you to give money to, even if they have to produce the misery and the starvation themselves.
If you give a poor mutilated street child money, then there will always be a ready supply of mutilated miserable street children for you to give money to, even if they have to produce the misery and the mutilation themselves.
So, please, when visiting a third world hell hole, grow a brain, you are not giving money to alleviate the misery, only to PERPETUATE the misery.
I am humbled to say that I would have never connected those dots. Being one of the masses who is moved by the individual’s suffering who stands in front of me, as Christ taught, it would never have occurred to me that their plight may have been artificially produced for the end means.
How sad.