Stopping aid to Africa? It won’t happen. Even people who fancy themselves rationalist still follow the Christian ethic that it’s better to give something you earn to someone else than to keep it for yourself.
This ethic is irrational because to follow reason is to follow cause and effect, therefore the person who caused the thing to be (who earned it) should suffer the effect (receive the thing).
Stopping aid to Africa? It won’t happen. Even people who fancy themselves rationalist still follow the Christian ethic that it’s better to give something you earn to someone else than to keep it for yourself.
This ethic is irrational because to follow reason is to follow cause and effect, therefore the person who caused the thing to be (who earned it) should suffer the effect (receive the thing).