Tribalism, tribal politics, tribal traditions, tribal customs amounting to all of the above. I said this when I was a 19 year old college student and I will say it again at 60. Leave them alone, let them die, you can do whatever you want to help them and they will either kill you, run you out or refuse any help or change. That is the root cause; they will not change their ways for all of the reasons listed above. If you manage to save 1% of the children it will make no difference because they will not change their tribal, political, religious or cultural practices that are causing them to die. Let them die; helping them over all of these years only allows them to postpone their demise as a culture and to do the same self-destructive things over and over.
Let them die; helping them over all of these years only allows them to postpone their demise as a culture and to do the same self-destructive things over and over.
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Also it spreads the decline and rot to the foolish benefactor.
What you give to a wastrel does not go to your own family.
As I brought up elsewhere, it’s ironic, isn’t it, that the people who most trumpet Darwin are at the same time the most intrusive into the process of survival of the fittest.
Likewise, those most for state-sanctioned suicide and murder (of the unborn, but more relevantly here of the born) are at the same time the most insistent that all our blood and treasure be expended to ensurve the “life” of peoples on whom otherwise nature would take its course.
When I hear you say “let them die,” I do not hear “turn your back on human suffering, let individuals die.” I hear the realistic sentiment that, just as some species go extinct for natural causes, so do some civilizations and their peoples.
Just to key in on your comment again--
So why doesn't the West accept this and move on?
It is like Islam keeping its people in utter backwardness. At some point, what can we say? They prefer their religion and, from the West's point of view, backwardness to modernity. The only problem there is that they are trying to impose that on us.