Friday, February 24, 2006

Politically correct

People will criticize bands who make apologia for drugs. In this case I agree with them. Many bands determine the conduct and morality of many young people when they are still susceptible to it. But it seems those same critics will lash out at band for making a plea to make poverty history.

Oh please!

I mean even if debt relief may be not be the best way to do it: we see corrupt leaders in the richest nations, even more in "third" world nations. The money could be diverted by the ruling party for themselves or for investments that only benefit the poor. It might be carried out by people who do not know the country and try to do things maybe with good intentions but that could even end up harmful... (See Mike Resnick's collection of A chronicle of a distant planet 1 2 3).

Somebody has to stand out I say these things should happen, the more so because everybody just tends to become more and more deaf to these kinds of pleas.

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