PLEASE NOTE The following is just me playing devil's advocate, I'm not suggesting I agree with the line of thought:Lorns wrote:I have several charities i donate to the main being Help for Heroes and the poppy appeal. And for 4 weeks of every year i remove all other charity boxes for the poppy appeal.
I believe charity begins at home and the first area of national debt i would make cuts would be international aid.
What if the "heroes" have fucked up the quality of life of civilians in the pursuit of british foreign policy, and destroyed so much infrastructure in that country that the civilians will die without foreign aid? Who'd you choose to donate to: the civlian who WILL die without help, or the solider who will be broadly okay by virtue of being from a rich country like ours?
On a more sincere note: given how much Britain has taken from, for example, African nations, should we not try and make things right by helping them out?