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Re:Ebola outbreak in DR Congo rages, with 61% death rate and... by gottorf on Saturday September 27, 2025 @12:13PM (#45397063)
> a sovereign nation

A sovereign nation in name only, who cannot adequately protect its people against disease without Uncle Sam's backstop.

> Americans don't want to cause the death of other people

Your concept of causation here is tortured. Americans are not spraying Ebola from airplanes. Can you equally say that you caused the death of a beggar who you passed by without sparing a dollar?

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Re:Ebola outbreak in DR Congo rages, with 61% death rate and... by bonsai_spool on Saturday September 27, 2025 @12:17PM (#45397099)
> Your concept of causation here is tortured. Americans are not spraying Ebola from airplanes. Can you equally say that you caused the death of a beggar who you passed by without sparing a dollar?

I can say that, having promised to deliver medication to someone, a capricious cut in medication supply will be causative in whatever change may result. And that is exactly the setting in which this poll was conducted.

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