Ordo amoris, as explained by Vance, is a concept that you prioritize the needs of people closest to you (immediate family), then the next closest, etc. Obviously this is common sense and generally describes how reasonable people live their lives, so it is completely wrong for Trump to govern the country in the same way according to libs.
A lot of the discussion has centered around a foreign aid program called PEPFAR (President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief) started by Bush in 2003, also referred to as PREP (Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis). Basically the program distributes HIV/AIDS meds to 20M+ people for about $6.5 billion and has been estimated to save 26M lives since its inception. This program is now cut off, probably permanently, since it was administered by USAID and that agency has been deleted by DOGE.
It's a pretty interesting issue, especially regarding Christian ethics, since it's a proxy for the entire African charity movement, but I think the answer is clear.
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Ordo amoris: we don't adequately take care of the poor and needy in our own country, so we can't justify spending money on other countries.
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USAID is a supervillainous agency that uses aid to force countries into globohomo and who knows what other purposes. USAID is made to hurt people, not help them. We need to wipe the slate clean.
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Any soft power we get from PEPFAR seems nonexistent given China's Belt and Road incursion into Africa, among other things.
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Love in the Bible is a concept that encompasses just leadership as well as kindness and help. This is why the Bible firmly defines "God is love" even though He visited all kinds of disasters on the Israelites and other nations. Allowing the consequences of their wrongdoing to fall on their heads, instead of aiding and abetting it, was an act of love. In the end it was better for them.
Would it be better for Africa to distribute free anti-STD drugs in the long run? The continent's population is skyrocketing at an unbelievable rate thanks to Western intervention, and they still can't take care of themselves. Is it better for Africa to host an exponentially growing population that will be unable to obtain food by themselves, let alone anything more meaningful?
Are Africans advancing when anti-STD drugs insulate them from practices like pouring sand in vaginas before sex and raping virgins to cure AIDS?
- one of the crucial tests of love in the Bible is the Golden Rule: "Therefore, whatever you want men to do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets." - Matthew 7:12
So if I was African and I had foresight of what was going to happen to Africa when the continent spikes into the multiple billions of people, would I want that to be done to my people? Probably not.
- also, as some people have noted, the previous verses illustrate God's love as such: "Or what man is there among you who, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone?" - Matthew 9:12
One might ask, "what man is there among you who, if his son asks for bread, will tell him he already gave the bread to the Africans?"
Your assumption is that stopping Foreign Aid is the same as cutting off all contact with Africa. I'm not saying they aren't allowed to buy American books, or pay for British engineers.
No, those doctors became taxi drivers because being a taxi driver gave them an income that was 3 times their yearly wage as a doctor.
Ridiculously wrong. Every population in recorded history has the ability to innovate and be competitive. The question is how productive will one innovation be over another.
That's so ridiculously hyperbolic it can't be taken seriously. Turtles can replicate and be self-sustaining.
You noted that our example African was capable of learning two languages. Yes, by definition, he can feed himself. Jesus.
How are you so blatantly stupid that you got that from what I said. The entire medical system in Africa IS ENTIRELY RELIANT ON FOREIGN INNOVATION AND FOREIGN WORKERS PRODUCTION.
AGAIN, WHY?! Why are they so poor as doctors? Is it because they have absolutely nothing to offer but someone else’s product?
Complete lie, there are numerous societies today that would completely collapse without foreign intervention just as an uncountable amount have collapsed before now.
The majority of Africa would starve and collapse within a decade exactly because they can’t feed themselves or be self sustainable. Animals go extinct without intervention all the time, including multiple species of turtles! Being able to speak a second language is not an indicator of self reliance.
Only at the highest levels. They can compete fine within Africa.
Because the entire country has a low cost of living. Doctors in America benefit from federal intervention to keep wages high.
Only Socialist ones, and that's just because of parasitism. Clear the socialism out and they'll become a different, but functioning, society.
Again, no. Worst case, there would be depopulation in the cities, but it would never likely get to that situation. Farming and fishing exist and have existed in Africa for millennia. More than likely they would just be poorer versions of Nigeria.
Factually incorrect, a foreign doctor in Africa is immeasurably more valuable than an African doctor.
This is patently false as well, doctors in America were forced into federal regulations. Private practices which were immensely more valuable are now dead because of those regulations. Please don’t make up shit.
African cultures run on 2 settings, socialist and barbarism. Neither are functional.
They do not have the knowledge needed to maintain population levels, if we applied farming techniques from 18th century America we would be starving as well. “Fishing and farming” existing and being able to maintain current population is no where near the same thing.
You just compared a non-African doctor to an African doctor, which is the opposite of what I said.
Federal regulations restrict the amount of doctors that can be licensed at any one time. There are literally caps. This drives their wages up because there can't be enough competition to drive wages down.
"I don't like blacks, therefore I get to make shit up".
I never said current population levels, you put it in your head and didn't write it down.
You literally said Africans can't replicate or be self-sufficient. That's why had to bring up non-sapient animals, because the comment was so ridiculous.