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If you are dirt poor in a dirt poor country it is actually not a bad investment.



Sure, but the example served to illustrate which sacred values are left in secular Western societies.

If one's first urge is to then reply with "yes I would sell my child!" that only proves two, highly related, things. One, that this person completely missed the point. Two, that this person is apparently unable to get over themselves, since the discussion is clearly not about them, yet they somehow manage to interpret it in a way that is all about them.




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