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To: Edwarda who wrote (29005)	1/24/1999 8:14:00 PM
From: Dayuhan	Respond to of 108807

Charity may not accomplish all that one might want. On the other hand, I remain unconvinced that the State can do it either. The State almost certainly can't. Unfortunately, if an unacceptable situation exists that charity cannot or will not deal with, the State has to at least try. The alternative - ignoring it - would be a negation of all that we believe. It is analagous in some ways to the interventions in places like Somalia or Haiti. There is no fundamental logic to it at all: no national interest is at stake, and it is foolish to think that we could solve the underlying problems. But the alternative is to sit back, wash our hands, and watch a few hundred thousand die because of disputes between petty feudal warlords. Along the same vein, do we sit back and let children starve in our inner cities because their parents are dysfunctional? No simple answer, probably no answer at all. But there are times when we, individually or as a group, have to attempt what we cannot hope to achieve, because the alternative is worse. What is important (to me, at least) is to try to do a better job than has been done before. Steve