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It is far too easy to sit back and say "send them some condoms with the food they're supposedly sending," or to say things like "they're selfish bringing kids into the world." In fact, it is quite silly to do so without looking at the whole of the situation.
I saw mention of the fact that the conditions that these people know is ALL they have known, due to the raping of their resources and the profitability of keeping them from being industrialized, even in the face of lip-service "efforts" to feed/clothe/medicate them... One must add to that the most natural of human reflexes is procreation, why in the FUCK would you expect people who know nothing other than being alive (even if only BARELY that) to not do the ONE thing that mammals do?

My issue, though, is with the (usually catholic) churches that go on missions to these places. Yes, they bring food and t-shirts saying "Orlando Magic, 2009 NBA Champions" (yes, really!), but they ALSO bring an archaic and damned fucking near nihilist approach to the one thing that would help to stem the tide of STD and overpopulation in that they REFUSE to concede that perhaps, just damned maybe prevention is better than cure.
Honestly, it is selfish to say "if you're unfit to take care of a kid, then you need your tubes tied" without first addressing the fact that these countries have no fucking health systems and the nations that left them in these spoils (usually France, in the case of Africa and Haiti to an extent) did nothing to right their wrongs that caused the situation they now find themselves in.
Again, the people in these countries are very rarely at fault for their own shortfalls, and I refuse to victim-blame any single damned person in these countries. I blame the fake-ass "charitable efforts" for missing the damned point and therefore hemorrhaging cash into the problem without thinking to actually SOLVE the problem.

The problem is that there is more profit in the treatment of a problem than the elimination of it.

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