It's based out of there. That's where their offices are.
Do you spew venom at those individuals as well? Aren't they wasting their time? Or maybe they just feel that HUMAN BEINGS deserve to be helped, if there's ability to help them.
Nope, because chances are good that the patients they are treating have contributed something meaningful to society.
They've developed new and improved methods of treating and managing xdr-tb, and has shown that aids can be managed if there's a will to do it.
The MDR-TB thing, yes that worked and needed to be done. Why waste more money on treating these AIDS patients when it would be simpler and more cost effective just to round them up and quarantine them? That would bring the problem to a far more rapid resolution than trying to educate a mass of insipid people who lack even common sense.
BTW, it's rather interesting that you're perfectly happy to learn spanish and go treat people in peru, or treat people here in the states. Nice caucasian/hispanic populations. But when it comes to the blacks in Haiti and "Africa", your response is 'Let those ignorant sub-humans die, let the diseases run their course and depopulate them all, we don't need them'. Yeah, I went there. Yeah, you'll deny it. But it's about the most racist ****ing thing I've heard on here in a while, and I'm calling you out on it
I was waiting for someone to not be able to take me on point and play the race card. I guess the time I spend working with people of basically every ethnic group you can name (short of Hmong, I've yet to see one of them here) at a clinic here in town is just for show.
🙄 I don't care about their race. I care about the color of their skin. If these problems were infesting a group of stupid white liberals, I'd have no problem quarantining their butts either.
Go out and love people, care for them, do the best you can, and don't let a damn soul make you feel bad for it.
I'm not telling them not to. I'm just demanding that they be realistic in how they expend relatively limited resources. Focus on those things you can address successfully, and those people who will benefit the most and, in turn, benefit others.
If this dude chooses to have Haitians, Rwandans, Peruvians, Russians as his patients, more power to him. If you don't like the guy, stay out of the ****ing thread and let other people talk about it.
Yeah, more power to him too.....he just should not expect to get his ass kissed for it. I've met the man at one of his speaking engagements (forced to attend by my then girlfriend). He's a self-righteous piece of work.
You've made your point, nobody gives a ****, so move along.
No,
you don't give a ****. Slight difference there. If it weren't for the rule against re-posting PMs, I could show you the seven or eight PMs I've gotten since I chimed in on here. Only one of them sided with you. Most of them are to the effect of "Thank you for having the balls to say it."
Dropkick, you want to throw around utilitarian arguments like their gospel, maybe you should go do a little reading in ethics instead of grabbing the first 'enlightened and pragmatic' viewpoint you saw.
Sorry, I'm probably better read in ethics than you are. Just because I disagree and reject your view as idealistic nonsense does not imply I'm ignorant of the stances you take and how you feebly attempt to back them up.
I suggest reading 'A Theory of Justice' by Rawls. It's a little bit different from what you may have seen
Actually I read it while you were probably still in elementary school.....didn't really think it was anything special. It was better than most books out there, but then again it wasn't anything I had to change my shorts after reading either.
I think his ideas are enlightening, especially for someone who may claim to want to do the best work to help the world
Then maybe Dr. Farmer needs to read it, not me. I've never claimed that.
It's one of my favorites, but certainly isn't the only point of view out there that disagrees with the philosophy of 'to hell with them, they're far and different from me'
Once again with the racism retort.....nice......apparently you should find some good books on how to formulate a proper argument. I can recommend a few to you if you like. It has nothing to do with them being far away (I would lock up my roommate if he posed a threat to society), it has nothing to do with them being different (I would do the same to my own family) and I would expect the same to be done to me if I were suddenly struck down and found myself stupid and infected with something contagious. It's only a biased opinion if you don't apply it to everyone regardless of factors beyond their control (race, sex, ethnicity, height, eye color, country of origin). Please get off your pedestal and get down here with the rest of the guilty self-absorbed white (I'm guessing you're white based on your location and the limp wristed nature of your racism argument; if I'm wrong, I apologize) liberals before develop HACE.
