Should ending poverty in our country be a priority over ending poverty in other countries?
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thantos88
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I think we should concentrate on ending poverty period... and ending the things which cause poverty... it should not be other countries first and it shouldn't be our country first but trying to find and correct the root causes of poverty in general wherever it might be...
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No. It should be done globally with equal attention. Anything less would be immoral.
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charity starts at home, i say fix your own country before trying to help others.
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Charity Begins at home !!!
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yes. Tou can't help other countries if yours isn't doing well
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Of course. It's like the old saying "You have to love yourself first before you can love others".
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I don't think this is a matter of "should" or "shouldn't". I think we do what we can, when we can.
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A poor man has no relations
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You really can't distinguish between these very finely: poverty is a complex problem with (generally) international connections: country A is rich, farms out it's dirty work to country B which is poor, and that money supports the corrupt government in B, fueling aggressive behavior toward the water resources shared with country C, causing people in country C to starve because the farms dry up. That's a very simplified example of how poverty is interconnected with global systems of economics and politics. So someone who just says "lets go help country C!" and starts filling up buckets of water is entirely missing the subtleties of the problem. Of course we would like to end poverty everywhere, but to make any real progress, we have to understand these interconnections, and work on breaking the "weak links" of the chain. That requires letting go of the simplistic mindset that divides poverty into us-vs-them, and seeing the behavior of the whole.
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