General Chat

So RR'd again....someone doesn't have a sense of humour obviously......grow up people if you can't laugh then what is life....

There is no such thing as a welfare state in trad pastoral societies such as Somalia. Large families are a necessity as the children help with the farming. Cattle herding and provide for the old. Welfare and work is based on the extended family and the tribe.

Western gov, the Vatican and aid agencies have done endless harm to such societies in e Africa, Afghanistan and so on. Now we are reaping the whirlwind from the planted dragon's teeth

Thank you for that.

The problems of Somalia are not at all due the reasons I given by David who has a ccepted hook line and sinker the position of neo colonialists and liberals. The most sig problem has been the invasion of the country by Italy in the 1920s which led to the wasteland under the heel of Ethiopia. Since independence Somalia has suffered from rule by isis backed war Lords and high energy prices for cooking which has led to trees being cut down for firewood. The loss of trees and grass has decimated the cattle hence the hunger. Somalia and Ethiopia are also in the front line of regions suffering from climate change.

Somalians are highly intelligent friendly people living in a failed state with few friends.

before posting cpy Malthusian solutions got 2nd hand try doing some research first.

While many would agree with you David, there is another perspective.

High infant or child mortality is common in many 3rd world countries if the parents can't afford to pay for treatment or buy food. They'll have many children in the hope that some of them will survive.
Those children will then help to work the land & support their parents in their old age.

The men regard it a sign their virility producing ever more children, especially sons.
Not wise since they cannot provide for those they have.
Free birth control is available but not being used.
Not only is it unfair on the children it is very unfair on the mothers :-( :-|

Forsan miseros meliora sequentur.
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Killed, fighting, or making their way to Europe.

Wallets are opened for children, not for adults. In any event, the footage was probably filmed at feeding stations where the mothers have brought their children.

SO SAD ALL THOSE STARVING DISEASED CHILDREN.

NOTABLE ABSENSE OF ADULT MALES.

WHERE ARE THERE FATHERS :-( :-0 :-|