Originally Posted by
gonzo76
Do you drive a car? Why? That's selfish. Why not take the bus and donate the money you would spend on a car to feed the starving children?
As for visiting escorts? Every time you do you could feed a village for a week.
Take the plank out of your own eye before pointing at the splinter in someone else's.
If you think solving child hunger was as simple as throwing money at it then it would have been solved a long time ago. Thinking that private citizens could or should intervene is laden with lots of issues.
Tough to have it both ways. Gates donates tens of billions to humanitarian causes but gets slammed for it.
Dammed if you do, dammed if you don't.
And BTW, private investment in space exploration has massively reduced costs and will continue to do so. Compare the price per launch between NASA and space x.