Originally posted by Mike Cash I have to ask if you're familiar with the tendency for mothers decades ago to tell them children to eat all their food because there are starving children in China.
That a child in the US eating all of the food on their plate would have zero effect on how much food a child in China got seems never to have occurred to them.
Of course, the obvious retorts to the "starving children" are "so send 'em this" or "Yes! Let's rub the little bastards' faces in it and show them how well off we are by gorging ourselves!"
Down here, it was more "Africa" instead of "China", which leads to a good scene in Morris Gleitzman's
The Other Facts of Life, where the roles are reversed: it's the kid who complains to his mother that they're wasting too much food.
I never got it, either. Like how eating crusts will make your hair curly. Not only is that illogical, but I couldn't help wondering who the hell would
want curly hair.