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Friday, November 21, 2008

Intervention

All attitude which leads to a massive attack on any country of the world, and for any sort of reason, is only a cultural interpretation of what people think is “a necessity” and what is not.

There are so many terrible events happening in the world these days (DR Congo…) and nobody is even trying to stop the despair of thousands of miserable humans around the world dying from famine, war, natural disasters and genocides…. while others are busy inaugurating dreamlands in Dubai or using jets to buy bread for their wives.

If a few countries decide to interfere in the affairs of other countries, unless it is in order to save other human beings from a disastrous event, absolutely no other reason can be acceptable in acting as a better person.

If we see a dying child at our neighbor’s house, will we break in and take the baby to the hospital?

Answer 1 - The parents have abandoned the child they are not home and we have to save the child.

Answer 2 - the parents have beaten up the child brutally and we feel that we have to interfere, but we need to call the police to figure it out

Answer 3 - We see the dying child but we don’t know that the child is simply dying of cancer and the parents are actually doing what they can to save their own kid.

Answer 4 - We do interfere, and take the neighbors child to the hospital, but we forget that we have left the kettle on our own oven and we return home to see the house burnt down while we were busy with somebody else’s business.

1 Comment(s):

Comment by: Anonymous Anonymous

Regarding the Eastern Congo, I believe that in the future, one of the harshest judgements that people will make about our era will be aimed at the unwillingness of the well-off and/or powerful nations of our time to take any interest in what was the biggest genocide and the most brutal regional conflict of our time. And I think that the real and true answer to why nobody can be bothered to intervene in Eastern Congo is that the victims are simply too black to save and there isn't even any mineral wealth under their feet to get a hold of.

11/21/2008 7:28 PM UTC  

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