On January 8th, 2009, a woman was bound, gagged, tied to a stake, and burned to death in rural Papua New Guinea, because she was most likely believed to be a witch. Here's the full article. CNN also goes on to say that "According to the United Nations, Papua New Guinea accounts for 90 percent of the Pacific region's HIV cases and is one of four Asia-Pacific countries with an epidemic." And "In recent years, as AIDS has taken a toll in the nation of 6.7 million people, villagers have blamed suspected witches -- and not the virus -- for the deaths."
To each his own, different cultures make the world what it is, yada yada, blah. But if the RACE, of which we ALL belong to, cannot help to make strides towards humanity abroad, why bother at all? I feel like an idealogical philosophy student screaming "Unfair!" at the top of my lungs from a grassy hill at an Ivy League school right now. I get it. If we could only get some water filters down to rural Dominican Republic, we could eradicate a ton of diseases instantly. If we could only send food over to starving people in Uganda, slavery would not exist there. If we could only do a hundred little things, a million bigger things would be better. And who are we, right?
It just irks me that Saeed Ahmed (reporter for CNN) can gather all of this information, on the misinformation of the rural Guinea's, why can't anyone let them in on the advancements in knowledge the word over has experienced in the past 316.5 years?
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Are you justifying the Burning because the people have AIDS ?
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