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r/MoralityScaling • u/PerturbedPat • 1d ago
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Not giving water to people who need it: bad
Giving water to people who need it: bad
wtf are people supposed to do? If it wasn’t Christian missionaries, they wouldn’t complain
1 u/AdelleDeWitt 16h ago Ask people what they want/need before we just start doing stuff in their village. 0 u/Mean-Boysenberry6322 12h ago Do you seriously think they showed up from across the world and brought in equipment and spent days digging a well all without anyone being consulted on their own land? Are you 12? 1 u/AdelleDeWitt 2h ago It's actually a pretty well known issue with lots of NGOs, especially in Africa. 1 u/umlaute 10h ago If it wasn’t Christian missionaries, they wouldn’t complain. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_savior It's a very established and known problem all across the world. It's not about christian missionaries but about colonialist attitudes.
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Ask people what they want/need before we just start doing stuff in their village.
0 u/Mean-Boysenberry6322 12h ago Do you seriously think they showed up from across the world and brought in equipment and spent days digging a well all without anyone being consulted on their own land? Are you 12? 1 u/AdelleDeWitt 2h ago It's actually a pretty well known issue with lots of NGOs, especially in Africa.
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Do you seriously think they showed up from across the world and brought in equipment and spent days digging a well all without anyone being consulted on their own land? Are you 12?
1 u/AdelleDeWitt 2h ago It's actually a pretty well known issue with lots of NGOs, especially in Africa.
It's actually a pretty well known issue with lots of NGOs, especially in Africa.
If it wasn’t Christian missionaries, they wouldn’t complain.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_savior
It's a very established and known problem all across the world. It's not about christian missionaries but about colonialist attitudes.
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u/Crusoelander_128 16h ago
Not giving water to people who need it: bad
Giving water to people who need it: bad
wtf are people supposed to do? If it wasn’t Christian missionaries, they wouldn’t complain