tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682550116445790117.post4190530687790555452..comments2024-03-23T09:59:53.293+00:00Comments on LINEN ON THE HEDGEROW: Drought, famine, disease and pestilenceRichard Collinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10826907710570316952noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682550116445790117.post-42289122288455561122011-07-25T21:44:53.240+01:002011-07-25T21:44:53.240+01:00I'm all for a tax, provided none of it is used...I'm all for a tax, provided none of it is used to abort and condomize problem peoples down to manageable numbers or out of existence.<br /><br />Chris WrightAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682550116445790117.post-12072782838373114712011-07-24T09:05:55.993+01:002011-07-24T09:05:55.993+01:00This is such a dilemma. The automatic response is ...This is such a dilemma. The automatic response is one of compassion for human beings in extremis. And yet. And yet. All the downsides niggle away and one asks if it's really worth giving when never-ending conflict seems to be the major cause of famine and death. <br />In stricken Somalia the controlling Muslim cadre is denying entry to certain major aid groups they don't like. Their obduracy is predicted to result in people dying, not in their in their thousands, but in their millions.<br />For the same reason attempts to give the people the skills of survival seem similarly doomed. Even were one willing to give up a tiny proportion of income on a formal basis there is no guarantee it would end up where needed. This is the perennial problem. <br />One is tempted to shrug and think: The hell with it. But my two donations have gone off and a third will be sent this week with the prayer that what I give will, in fact, reach where it should and do what it should.<br />At bottom it is not the construct of state intervention which will eradicate this suffering but God's intervention in the construct of the human heart.Gentyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05569143943867323153noreply@blogger.com