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Originally Posted by Xist
I had not heard of him. I wonder how well it would go over if I wrote "I will spend my money depriving the poor of their food, therefore ending domestic hunger!"
Saving the world or ending it, either way, you do not have a problem anymore!
[I do not like that idea at all]
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Be careful of anything which mentions Malthus - his followers (he was a teacher at a school for future British Empire bureaucrats) who actually did put his theories into action allowing tens of thounsands of Indians to die in a famine in the 1800s because they thought it was better not to help.
Well actually they wanted to avoid the costs involved and this enabled them to do so with some kind of "moral" support.