Have You Ever Cried For A Child Dead From Malnutrition ?

[Canary42]

Have you ever cried for a child dead from malnutrition ?

There's 5,000 in the world every day.

[agchristie]

No, but what a thoroughly depressing statistic that is.

[wolf63]

No - I am not over emotional.

I am now off to Oxfam to do a shift - my contribution is tiny but we really have an obligation to improve life for so many people here and abroad.

Even being nice to people and smiling at strangers (without getting locked up) improves thing a little.

W☺lf

[kvalidir]

Yes but the thing that will always stay with me is that fairly recent photograph of a man holding what was left of his baby who had been burned in a shell attack, it took me a moment to register what it was but now I can't get that image out of my mind. Horrible.

[pusskin]

I have often thought of them poor children while stuffing our faces and cant eat anymore food. So very sad .

[Amphilogiai]

No, if you start, where would you stop?

[Mamyalynne]

I cry at the inhumanity that goes on every day on this planet.

[pusskin]

And it seems to be getting worse mamy. When will it end.

[boxtops]

No, I haven't. Sadly, in past times, this would happen regularly, due to drought, war, deprivation (in this country too). We just didn't see it so often. It may sound unfeeling, but it used to be the way that nature regulated the number of people in the world..... speaking of which, I have just heard on the televison that 2.6 babies are born every SECOND across the world, which is terrifying.

[New Judge]

No I haven't.

What I have often thought about is why people continue to knock out children when they do not have a chance in hell of feeding and clothing them. As I've said before, it's like continuing to breed kittens because so many of the finish up in a sack at the bottom of the canal.

[boxtops]

Sadly, NJ, on cultural or religious grounds, or because they just don't have or believe in the wherewithal to stop breeding.

[agchristie]

Or maybe it's a maternal instinct which you couldn't possibly understand NJ!

[New Judge]

Well perhaps their maternal instinct should be modified because any mother who knowlingly brings children into such situations is simply introducing them to a short lifetime of misery and suffering.

[boxtops]

If they don't know how to use contraception (or it's seen as an evil thing), then they have no choice but to conceive when they have marital relations - it's sometimes not a maternal choice.

[cupid04]

It's very sad, there's no need for anyone to starve. There's enough food for everyone but some people are just plain greedy.

[jno]

the maternal instinct is in our genes - their only purpose in life is to reproduce themselves, and genes that aren't reporduced die out and if it happens to everyone, the human race dies out. So the maternal instinct has its upsides.

Canary, were you wondering why people cry for cartoon characters but not real ones? It's probably because we dont' know anything about them. Even with a fictional character like Bambi, we feel for them because we've just spent some time in their company.

[boxtops]

...and human activity, like the destruction of the rain forests, leaves huge swathes of land which are useless for anything once they've passed through.

[agchristie]

So NJ, if jno is to be believed how would you 'modify' genes? Or do you have another method?

[anneasquith]

canary, I thought the number would be higher :(

[Kromovaracun]

Cried from which orifice?