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It costs roughly $3,000 to $5,000 to save a single life (averaging about 0.0002 to 0.0003 lives per dollar) via interventions like malaria prevention or vitamin supplementation. How much money do you have in savings? How much money do you spend on non-essentials? I’d like to calculate how many people you’ve “murdered”.

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So we as a country have, for many decades, decided that things like 'soft power' exist. It turns out, and this has been borne out by many years of relative peace and prosperity, that if you don't shit on the world, alienate your neighbors, start ill-advised wars, and instead help prevent global disease pandemics and feed people so that they don't become destabilizing terrorists out of necessity, benefits accrue. See every history textbook ever for more information here. Hope this helps.

That is completely irrelevant to the discussion. Serious question, how many people, by your own standards, have you had killed because you haven't contributed money that you had the capacity for? Why should we hold you at a lesser standard than anyone else?

your argument is obviously ridiculous and you should feel bad about it.

Of course, because it’s your argument.

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