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Originally Posted by Lawless45
Pray tell what you do for the poor and disadvantaged that gives you authority to throw such words around? Talk is very cheap and if you are for one minute trying to suggest that a person is morally obliged to "care" more about the disadvantaged of a foreign land than for those on their own doorstep you are truly warped.
As i already pointed out, it means nothing either way to people like you because you have no investment in any of it, you are busy formulating intellectual standpoints in a vacuum.
Feel free to correct me if i am wrong. If you have got off your ass and done something to help poor and disadvantaged then credit and kudos where it is due and i am not too proud to say it either. But too many throw words like that around with nothing to back it up but ideals and it makes me sick and somewhat agitated.
I mean i an not going into details but i am currently funding the education of someone and plan to do so for at least two others in the near future and potentially more besides when it is affordable for me to do so, all in a developing nation. Last summer i volunteered in a special needs school in Kuala Lumpur and i specifically donate to charities that help the most needy in the world.
I have some thoughts of starting a small charity in the future when it is feasible to do similar to what i will be doing privately, funding education for those who have great potential but cannot achieve that on their own. Essentially a scholarship.
The reason i don't care as much for the needy here is there are few who are needy here and those that are can be helped here by the government in ways the actually poor truly desperate don't have abroad.
I support the nhs, government assistance for the needy, free schooling to 18 and subsidised higher education for the poor and so on.
I am not against improving the situation here, which BTW voting out of Europe won't do anyway, but i am also not wrapped up in prejudice that i believe someone being born in my country is more worthy. That's at least xenophobic, probably racist too depending on the situation.