Comments on: Save a Child — Visit the Death Counter

By: Silent Bob

Silent Bob — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 05:59:51 +0000

“The main cause of poverty in Africa is the corrupt governments that run the place.” what a load of rubbish – there are corrupt governments everywhere! the way the western world treats (and has treated) Africa is one of the biggest causes of poverty there. Perhaps you need to take your head out of the sand and stop believing everything the politicians say.

By: Nacon

Nacon — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 04:15:08 +0000

…got milk for the kids?

By: astro

astro — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 21:11:42 +0000

you are all beginning to really get on my tits now

By: Nacon

Nacon — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 17:39:41 +0000

No… that would save a lot of children, Artemis. A lot!

By: Artemis Fate

Artemis Fate — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 11:06:06 +0000

Save a child, assassinate a greedy CEO embezzling funds from charity organizations

By: Nacon

Nacon — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 08:56:52 +0000

USA & UK has been donating so much money already for the last 10 years… WHY AREN’T THEY STOP DYING!? Because they forgot to build schools to teach them not to die. (to hunt, cook, heal, build tools, etc etc)

There’s some native cultures out there are still better than them without any money or support from other countries. WTF? come on, stop being stupid. Teach, not money nor food. The more food you feed them, the longer they will be poor and unable to make themselves better living. That’s the truth… and some how it’s Second Life’s fault? fucktard.

By: Shockwave Plasma

Shockwave Plasma — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 08:27:49 +0000

So the WDM have been going for 36 years to reduce poverty in the world? They don’t seem to have done much good.

The main cause of poverty in Africa is the corrupt governments that run the place.

Middle class people in the west give aid, it goes to Africa, where is gets taken by the governing elite, and sent to Switerland to make the Swiss Banks happy.

By: Bob the Tomato

Bob the Tomato — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 06:41:30 +0000

I’m sure that their presence is really, really going to stop a lot of people playing SL.

I don’t suppose it ever occured to them that the money they’re spending on land fees and premium account supporting this thing they obviously hate so much could be better used buying soup for orphans or something.

Bob

By: Kalo Division

Kalo Division — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 22:38:31 +0000

Gah, put up my internet screenname in that last topic instead of my SL screenname.

Also: I just took another look at just what they’re doing. They’re counting (based on statistical averages) the number of child poverty deaths since SL went online? Okay, tracking this number? It just sounds stupid. I might as well start tracking the number of tobacco-related deaths since the Panama Canal was opened, since those two are also pretty unrelated.

By: Kalo Foxfire

Kalo Foxfire — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 22:34:14 +0000

Chill out, Profoky. Let us SUV-using, gas-guzzling, McDonalds-eating, Wal-mart shopping Westerners have our share of the guilt tripping.

Seriously, though, “We are here to remind them that they can’t escape the problems of the real world.” Oh, yeah, that’s gonna go down well in a world of recreational escapism. The image that conjures up for me is a wheelchair-bound child abusee playing SL, when a flashing red message pops up on screen: ‘YOU CAN’T ESCAPE THE PROBLEMS OF THE REAL WORLD’.

Oh, wait, damn. That’s already mentioned in the article. Well, I’m keeping the comment anyway.