Another Way To Prove My Point about African Children.

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Sending money to starving people in foriegn countries is merely treating a symptom and not the disease. The reason the people are starving and don't have good medical care has more to do with the system of the government under which they live.

Saving one person is a useless gesture, as the system that created the starving person, will undoubtedly create more.

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Your logic is terrible. Just because others will inevitably die doesn't mean that you don't save the ones you can. It's not like this is an all-or-none situation. If you save one person out of a thousand, yes 999 of them will die. But you did save one. How is that a wasted effort? It's not like the rest of the population has to be alive for the one saved person to remain alive.
I agree with you about donation "treating the symptom and not the disease." However, that doesn't mean that you don't save lives where you can.