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Originally Posted by MMM
You are very good at pushing people away from agreeing with you. I have seen it happen on this thread alone. How many times have you felt the need to say your argument is purely rational.
I understand the rationality of helping Haiti. No one would disagree. However, Haiti doesn't need financial assistance. It needs ORGANIZED and TRUSTWORTHY financial assistance. With the money the world has put into Haiti, they should be living large. They aren't. You have the problem of diminishing returns. Is it better to put money in a safe, or a furnace. Maybe the furnace needs it more, but what is the furnace going to do with it?
Regardless of Haiti's needs, your argument that Japan "doesn't need the money" falls flat, as ANY country that experiences a disaster requires money to get rescue and relief efforts on the move. You still don't seem able to accept that much of that money doesn't go into the pockets of people without homes, but goes into buying food, water, supplies, airplane fuel, etc. to get relief workers from all over the world into the disaster zone. I am repeating arguments that you don't seem to want to respond to, so I am stopping here.
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I'm glad you're stopping because I will say it again. Ironic that you are accusing me of repeating myself because you just seem to be rewording the exact same point over and over again.
I am not against giving Japan the things it NEEDS. But money, in particular MY money, isn't one of them.
Furthermore Haiti was just an example of a country that needs MONEY more than Japan (In that it doesn't have the money to fund any sort of relief).
I've said this before too.
Forget Haiti if you want.. choose a country that is poor that is facing a Humanitarian crisis and substitute it for that.