Yes, I say. I've been there. And seen how people live in many parts of the world - not on TV, but in reality. Real kids, really dying of kwashiorkor; real adults crawling sandy streets on all fours, victims of childhood rickets; real orphans, abandoned on trash heaps and partially eaten by pigs; real victims, sprawled in hospital filth that would make you retch.

That's why I can't feel much sympathy for well-fed people sitting on their comfy backsides in front of their electronic gadgetry, with thousands of dollars worth of gun toys in their safes, cabinets and closets, whining about the profit-making businesses on which their own prosperity depends.

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