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jonesjohnson • yesterday at 9:42 AM • 1 reply • view on HN

you know what would save lives?

If the top 1% would spend 1% of their wealth on preventing "low-hanging fruits" like

  * children starving
  * children dying from diseases whose vaccinations cost 1$
  * educating people on things like STDs, etc
You call "knowingly causing miscarriage" manslaughter, but boy have you looked at what "we" ("first world") are causing elsewhere in a global scale?

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sokoloff • yesterday at 11:24 AM

> children dying from diseases whose vaccinations cost 1$

If there’s a government anywhere that isn’t providing this for its citizens, perhaps looking into why that government is such a failure would yield greater and more durable change than a point patch of just a few vaccines.

> If the top 1% would spend 1% of their wealth

Why should we expect/demand more generosity from only 1% of the population? Maybe everyone should spend 1% of their wealth on these efforts? It’s easy to be magnanimous with someone else’s wallet.

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