Which do you hate the most -- poverty, racism or war?

It's a tie between war and poverty right now.

Racism, if that includes intertribal and interethnic prejudices, as well. Getting rid of those would help most in getting rid of the other two.

Other: prejudice. Consequences: poverty, racism and war.

They are all equally bad.

Racism

War

Poverty cause I'm poor!

They are all equally valid. A life without strife is not what we came here for.

What would be wrong with a life without strife?

Poverty! Then racism,thne War.In that order.

Poverty, because it's the root cause of the other two.

I don't like any of these, but I think that racism is the worst. It stems from ignorance. The others can stem from ignorance too, but there are other causes of them too.

I can't choose, they're all so bloody senseless. I suppose the one I've been most affected by personally is war, so I'd have to go with that. But they're all awful.

War - what is it good for?

I don't understand how poverty is the root cause of war, I'd have thought it would be more the other way round?

Rich nations rarely attack others. They don't need to - they've already got what they want. It's usually poor nations that want what the rich nations have got, or inhabitants of poor nations fighting over scarce resources within their country.

Look at all the wars going in in the world at the moment. Nearly all of them are in poor areas, and involve poor countries. There hasn't been a time in recent history when a rich nation has attacked a poorer one, other than in self-defence.

I suppose you're right, I was thinking more about the two world wars. Nothing else had really crossed my mind.

Even the two world wars were mostly caused by poverty, or at least relative poverty. The first world war was indirectly caused by it, as it led to a border dispute in eastern Europe which escalated to full-scale war. The second world war was directly caused by poverty, as the largest nation on the losing side in the first - Germany - suffered economic collapse which led to the rise of the Nazi party. After the end of the second world war, the victorious allies made sure that Germany received aid to rebuild, so that they didn't slide into poverty again. And it worked - Germany didn't suffer a second economic collapse, and Europe didn't have another war until the break up of Yugoslavia at the end of the 20th century. And that war was caused by disputes over finance as much as over geography.

War

racism

If I hate any of these, I'm not helping- I'm just adding hatred to a mix that is already bad.

Hey topper! Where have you been?

Licking my wounds. I had to get over a few nasty, little personal attacks someone made on me here. I kept being tempted to respond in kind, which I knew would be unhealthy and unpleasant for me and for the community. Once I finally got to the point that I could feel okay just filtering the person in question, I was ready to come back. I missed all you wonderful peeps here, though! I was also away on vacation an a Caribbean island for a week- that sure didn't suck in any way!

Cabana bois?
*drools*

No cabana bois, but I did have a nightly conversation with a Jamaican security guard who was all hot and bothered for me. I told it was flattering and how they don't really go for the big girls back home, so much. He said he was going to come to the States and take all the fat girls for himself. Gilly had a deck-hand on a pirate ship try to invite her to spend the night with him there!

None of them strike me as being particularly bad. Unpleasant, perhaps. Darwin commented that it is the tendency of a species to create more organsims than the environment can support. Poverty, racism, and war, would all be evidence of certain organisms hoping that they come out to be the ones that are supported by the environment. It's a process. An unpleasant process, perhaps, but a process. I embrace it.

YUM!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I see poverty as the part of the cause of the other 2, though poverty is caused by something too.

glad your back

Caribbean island *grumble* Caribbean island *grumble grumble*

Hope you had a lovely time - not in the least bit jealous

There are too many causes of those 3 things to attribute any one of them to another one. You can't say racism causes war or war causes poverty or anything like that, because there are so many other factors. Some poverty has nothing to do with war or racism. Some racism has nothing to do with poverty or war, some wars have nothing to do with racism or poverty. I think if you stand back and take each of these separate (not looking at any one being the cause of another one) war would have to be the worst. War is killing. Poverty is neglect, racism is ignorance. Killing is the worst.

Hating people is bad, hating things isn't. I absolutely despise, loathe, abhor, (hate) unwarranted suspicion, ignorant accusations and whatnot. That doesn't mean I'm contributing to a climate of hate. I'm not hating the person, just their behavior.

I wish more people would understand the distinction between hating the way someone acts and hating the person.

Me too.

Me too.

Well, I'm glad you admitted that this was a cynical and sarcastic statement about the nature of popularity.

One of the ironies of life is that one must usually make a choice between being popular and being: just, honest, wise, perceptive or intelligent.

So don't feel too bad if you aren't in the Top Ten. Popularity is for sheep and yes-men, and rarely bestows its blessings on individualists!

racism

All 3 bother me. But when you think about it, they can all lead into the same thing.

Poverty. Well...if you've been there.... Besides, the other two can create poverty. Did you know that?