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Iago
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2010-01-21, 06:13

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Originally Posted by scratt View Post
Food would probably have had more intelligent things to say as well.
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Originally Posted by eventhorizon View Post
Touché. Instead of ordering a palette of bibles, an extra palette of legitimate supplies should have been ordered instead.
Exactly. The food OR bibles thing is a false dichotomy as Chucker says, but it doesn't even have to be that bleak of a choice to see that there are far more important things to be taking up valuable space on a plane. There's a finite amount of space on Haiti. Some of it is being wasted by audiobook Bibles and Scientology e-meters. Oh, and at least food and water don't contain passages suggesting that natural disasters are the wrath of god

PZ Myers summed it up pretty well:

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Originally Posted by PZ Myers
Poor Haiti. First the earthquake, and now the cult vultures are descending on them. It's not just talking bibles: now the scientologists are coming.

Seriously, people. When a region suffers a disaster and the infrastructure is falling down in ruins and people need real help now, when the pipeline is limited and access is difficult, send in the experts (doctors and engineers, for instance) and immediately useful aid (medicine, food, drinking water), and all the peddlers of frivolous non-essentials should just stay out of the way. A box of e-meters is taking up space better spent on a box of antibiotics; a scientology auditor is displacing a doctor.
Gotta love that Gawker headline: John Travolta to Airlift Desperately Needed E-Meters to People of Haiti.

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