Feeding the starving - It is our duty to do what we can

“How much morality is there in saving an Ethiopian child from starvation today, for it to survive [for] a life of brutal circumcision, poverty, hunger, violence and sexual abuse, resulting in another half-dozen such wide-eyed children, with comparably jolly little lives ahead of them?” a columnist in a rival newspaper wrote during the week.

His answer seemed to be that the children should die as an example to Africans to get their house in order.

Maybe the columnist believed what he was writing, or he may have been merely seeking to stir controversy in order to attract attention to himself, in which case he should be ignored. But such vile indifference toward the suffering of fellow humans should not be encouraged.