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Oh really?
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Are you suggesting that we let the kids in Africa starve?
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I'm not suggesting anything but I will come right out and say it: the United States of America, as a geopolitical entity, has no obligation whatsoever to impose on, offer or give assistance to any other nation.
Now, if private charities and individual citizens want to do something, that's up to them. Quote:
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That we give no foreign aid of any kind whatsoever?
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Our government should not be giving foreign aid to any country.
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We have an obligation to do what we can to make things right.
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Why do we, as a geopolitical entity or as a society, have an obligation to make things "right" (according to whatever we think that right might be)? Where does this obligation come from?
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There is a limit to this obligation; we shouldn't necessarily send in troops but we should do what we can.
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Again, why should we do anything? Why shouldn't we let them reap what they sow?