irt adam
Your argument is essentially blaming Western Countries for Third world problems. I'm not going to take responsibility for their problems. Because you have some demented guilt complex is none of my concern.
To answer your questions:
"Do you personally grow your own crops?"
No, but I could if I needed to. Something entire nations of third world countries lack the capability to do on their own. They would not starve if they could grow their own crops.
"you might want to check where your pants are made."
Only because we tell them HOW to make them. They do not possess the ability to or they would be successful like Western nations. There is no other explanation.
"Why is the West wealthy? Because the West systematically pillaged the third world during the days of imperialism"
You have got to be kidding me. I thought I had set up a strawman. The West is wealthy because we possess the ability to build things people in the third world can't. It has nothing to do with pillaging resources. The third world is filthy rich in terms of natural resources with or without us, "pillaging." The problem is that they do not possess the IQ to figure out how to use it. If Negroponte or Gates or whoever wanted to truly help the third world he would work in a chem/bio lab to discover a magic potion to raise their IQ.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
