04-13-2009, 08:24 PM
Quote:I'm not sure what the solution is.A friend of mine used to be traveling with those big ships in the Bight of Benin, in the 1980s. He often sat with a gun on the prow. Back then, arming those ships was still possible; I see no reason to keep the ships unprotected.
The deepest cause of all problems, however, is poverty; and the main cause of that is overpopulation. Sending food aid can only be a temporary measure; sending prophylactics is probably better - and as a matter of fact, global consensus was reached at the 1995 Cairo conference that women ought to be in control of their own fertility. Even the Vatican, which is usually not for prophylactics, agreed to that.
