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Instead of what you advocate, we need real noble virtues - Talal Alrubaie

- Instead of what you advocate, we need real noble virtues

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Talal Alrubaie

2009 / 6 / 14 - 11:20
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Drear Mr. Shamel
I disagree with your implication that poverty is something that could be solved by personal remedies or struggle alone. To argue this way is a harmful oversimplification. Poverty is a complex socio-economic-political matter that in the vast majority of cases is not resolvable by personal efforts alone. The implication of your views is that the poor, for example, in Africa are ‘lazy’, a racist designation (?), and should feel guilty for not being rich. This adds insult to injury, since we well know that corruption of local governments and external exploitation is mainly responsible for poverty there.
Richness in itself is not an ethical virtue and if you consider it as such, then the implication is that one should endlessly need more of it and this eventually leads to more greed, exploitation, conflicts and even wars. Is that what you are advocating? Why cannot/shouldn’t we advocate instead real noble virtues like care for others, social support, self-awarness and authenticity (or these virtues have fallen out of fashion nowadays?), working for peace and clean

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