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I accuse you of being a small minded self serving little bore.
Some of the points above are interesting. I do agree with TheLittlestHobo that there seems to be large amounts of 'unwanted children' being born in many countries (including our own).
However I did put my hand in my pocket and would do so again.
Still can't believe what Eddie Izzard did though, it really was amazing.
You dont back that up with much though do you Ian. How about disputing what i said
I used to work for an international charity and went to a few 3rd world hell holes to see where the money was spent and how it was spent. The biggest difference to the lives of these people was made by giving women IUD's and implants so they could stop having children, or have them when they wanted them. We gave out free condoms, but blokes would not wear them. Shockingly many of the governments were against contraception but wouldnt / couldnt cope with the population growing or the mothers who died in childbirth or the abandoned unwanted kids. We were constantly harassed by religious nutters. FFS, some of them have a lot to answer for especially when it comes to AIDS and unwanted children or botched abortions.
I met many governments, NGO's, wealthy donors etc, some gave to make them feel good, some gave to do some good. We took it all and tried to do what we thought was good.
In the end some of the money made some of the victims better off.
Until you have stood ankle deep in human sh*t and seen people living their whole lives in slums with no hope of surviving older than 40, its hard to put it in perspective. All we have to worry about is what tyre for.................
Now thats a worthy cause. Every single penny in birth control.
I once read something by Mark Thomas (I think) who said that if the richest people in the world just paid their taxes properly ie not in the Netherlands (I'm looking at you Bono) or some other convenient tax haven then there would be no need for charity appeals. Not sure whether that's true or not but I reckon there's something in it