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If given the means, will you fly to Somalia to save some lives from famine?

Asked by mazingerz88 (28821points) August 12th, 2011

Honestly, I just asked this question to vent. I’m kind of heartbroken after reading this news about Somalian parents abandoning one or two of their kids on the way to escape famine due to drought and whatever other hellish reasons there are plaguing their land.

One father had to leave on the dirt path a 5 year old son so weak that he is unable to walk so he could continue on with his other children. Now I can’t get out of my head that boy slowly dying of hunger and thirst out there.

Then I heard news on the radio that a young man from Herndon, Virginia just won 107 million bucks in the lottery. Somehow I got into fantasizing that if I was that guy I might charter a plane and spend for whatever is necessary to get to those children being abandoned to their death. The fantasy does not really help but actually makes me feel worse, but will you fly with me if that was true?

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