I'm against giving aid that isn't part of a super holistic temporary (even if decades) solution that could conceivably work. Today's solutions have mostly failed; they've made the problems worse.
The Indian villagers may be justified in being wary of the vaccine, because the Indian gov't is highly corrupt. So the holistic solution should deal with the corruption too. If that's too hard to do it may be better to do nothing. The same is true with the larger cultural issues.
I do believe the problems are intractable in many countries. We don't have enough resources to solve them. (Esp. since the US is perhaps the poorest country when our national debt and unfunded liabilities is considered.) So, rather than make the problems worse with nonviable attempts, I think it's best to do nothing and let Nature sort it out.
The point of humanity is to control our destiny and not be left to the vagaries of nature.
Do note : it was assumed that people were on the same page about certain things and they need not be discussed.
For example: so far this discussion has never considered the reasons which lead to the poverty in the first place.
Since you are in disagreement, with the soundness of humanitarian goals, the scope of the discussion changes, quite dramatically.
Does india get redressal for the food and raw materials stolen during British rule?
Do we get repatriation for people sold into slavery?
Can we launch counter attacks on countries which benefited from this? Do we have a claim on GDP output from the UK/France and Portugal?
Your theory of least misery is under the utilitarian school of jurisprudence. It's limits are the same. It fails for situations where actions are unjust but create beneficial outcomes for the majority.
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What you are inherently arguing for is using your comparative advantages and somehow letting a portion of people die of starvation, Intentionally.
That is heinous. It is not intellectually sound or risqué,
it is "let them eat cake", just couched in other terms.
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You haven't consider the complexities on the ground and have in general hand waved them away. That's being rhetorically empty. Your last comment was that the problems are intractable.
No the problems are hard. Extremely extremely hard.
But thats what entrepreneurship is about - finding the solution to hard problems.
I'm against giving aid that isn't part of a super holistic temporary (even if decades) solution that could conceivably work. Today's solutions have mostly failed; they've made the problems worse.
The Indian villagers may be justified in being wary of the vaccine, because the Indian gov't is highly corrupt. So the holistic solution should deal with the corruption too. If that's too hard to do it may be better to do nothing. The same is true with the larger cultural issues.
I do believe the problems are intractable in many countries. We don't have enough resources to solve them. (Esp. since the US is perhaps the poorest country when our national debt and unfunded liabilities is considered.) So, rather than make the problems worse with nonviable attempts, I think it's best to do nothing and let Nature sort it out.