When I was little, my mom always used to tell me, "Now you finish your food; there are people in Africa who are starving."
Naturally, because she used those two phrases in the same sentence all the time, I associated the two. However, as I grew older, I began to wonder.
"What the fuck?"
How the hell are starving children in desolate countries going to benefit from me eating food? It just didn't make any sense, so I asked my mom one day.
"Mom, what do any of these starving people you so often mention have to do with me eating all of my food?"
To this she replied, "Because we shouldn't take what we have for granted."
What the hell is that? Some sort of 'Golden Rule' moral philosphy bullshit? All that kind of stuff usually seems to go hand in hand with one another.
So here we are, over in America, stuffing our faces, as if to say, "Ha ha, starving people! We have food and you don't!"
Of course, that were so goddamned fat, I guess the countries in destitution and poverty can content themselves with the following notion: "You should be grateful for the food you don't have; there are people in America dying of heart attacks."
~It all works out in the wash.~
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