re after years can we say that christian morality is oxymoronic forgach noao edu suzanne forgach writes from article qcq f r fido asd sgi com by livesey solntze wpd sgi com jon livesey if there is a western ethic against infanticide why are so many children dying all over the world the majority of the world isn t western superficially a good answer but it isn t that simple an awful lot of the starvation and poverty in the world is directly caused by the economic policies of the western countries as well as by the diet of the typical westerner for instance some third world countries with terrible malnutrition problems export all the soya they can produce so that it can be fed to cattle in the us to make tender juicy steaks and burgers they have to do this to get money to pay the interest on the crippling bank loans we encouraged them to take out fund raising for ethiopia is a truly bizarre idea instead we ought to stop bleeding them for every penny they ve got perhaps it s more accurate to say that there s a western ethic against western infanticide all the evidence suggests that so long as the children are dying in the third world we couldn t give a shit and that goes for the supposed pro life movement too they could save far more lives by fighting against third world debt than they will by fighting against abortion hell if they re only interested in fetuses they could save more of those by fighting for human rights in china and besides suzanne s answer implies that non western countries lack this ethic against infanticide apart from china with its policy of mandatory forced abortion in tibet i don t believe this to be the case mathew
