/lit/ - Literature

>>19682794
>If America is the culmination of Western white civilization, as everyone from the Left to the Right declares, then there must be something terribly wrong with Western white civilization. This is a painful truth; few of us want to go that far.... The truth is that Mozart, Pascal, Boolean algebra, Shakespeare, parliamentary government, baroque churches, Newton, the emancipation of women, Kant, Marx, Balanchine ballets, et al, don't redeem what this particular civilization has wrought upon the world. The white race is the cancer of human history; it is the white race and it alone—its ideologies and inventions—which eradicates autonomous civilizations wherever it spreads, which has upset the ecological balance of the planet, which now threatens the very existence of life itself.[2]

>>5991686
>You sound like Stalin and his bullshit about a million deaths being a statistic. You say you don't have a messiah complex but you want to play God and leave people on an island, quite literally, where they can play out a modern Colosseum.
Acting on your preferences isn't playing God, anon. Not adopting Haitians is no more playing God than not welcoming mosquitos in my room to feed on my blood. It's a simple, pragmatic, personal decision.

Interestingly though, Haiti is only half an island and the other half is noticeably less fucked up. Haiti is also the only place in the Western Hemisphere to have a successful slave revolution. It's an interesting place all around, basically a piece of misplaced West-Africa on another continent.

>And what is this bullshit about "righting the wrongs of fate." There is no fate. Fate didn't consign these people to a shitty life, we did. There's just us and what we can do for the betterment of all, especially those who are the most needy.
Not all circumstances are caused by humans. If you want to blame someone though, blame their parents who keep breeding under disadvantageous circumstances.

>You want to turn this into an argument about economics, or politics, or anything except what it is, the livelihoods of people who have no defense and no hope beyond the assistance they desperately need. It's not about the macrocosm of statistics, it's about the small tragedies that would unfold without our help, as patronizing as that might sound. Like it or not we're too far down the path of dependency to cut off these nations cold turkey.
Regardless of this all, you would certainly agree that the wrong thing to go about this is to systematically export third world children into the families of first world people as a solution? Adoption doesn't help these nations, and it makes our nations worse. Hell, adoption even leads to the creation of adoption farms where poor women are paid to be bred and sell their children to gullible white folk who think they're doing something noble.