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Pastimes : Why can't the U.S. take care of itself?
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To: Akula who wrote (15)9/17/1999 9:31:00 AM
From: MikeH  Read Replies (2) of 32
 
It is a basic human emotion to feel empathy, but the question is, Is it RIGHT to act on empathy.

Time and time again, humans and goverments have acted on empathy and only made things worse for those we were trying to help. People are still starving in Africa, but the strongmen are better armed. People are still starving in Russia, but the mafia is rolling in cash.

The best way to help out somebody is to allow capatilists to come in and build industry. The best way to encourage this is with money to either local business to build the industry, or local goverment to provide a stable enviroment for foriegn business.

Look at South Africa. It was essentially a wasteland before the Dutch settlers came in and started exploiting the mineral resources. They imported black workers from Northern countries to do the dirty work. And after a century of discrimination, the black transplants finally have equal rights.

This would still be a wasteland if the Dutch hadn't supported these ventures with foriegn money. Altruism had nothing to do with it, this is capatilism at its best. Sure, the dutch settlers don't like the fact that they lost control of the country they built, but it's the way of the world.

This is how you help out other people. You don't let empathy do the work. Empathy is fickle and wears out quickly. You let humanities strongest and most universal emotion do the hard work, greed.
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