12-25-2012, 08:44 AM
My thoughts are: Stop trying to "fix" their problems. When they get tired of people contracting polio and dying of suffocation, etc., then maybe they will stop believing whatever the local cleric, whoever is spewing.
We do not owe it to the world to try to fix all of the world's problems. If someplace wants our help, and is eager to work with it, fine. But, if they don't want us there, who are we to say they have to take our help?
The locals want to kill aid workers? Fine. They can figure out how to be self-sufficient, and if it doesn't work, maybe they would be more receptive.
One of the models of human behavior change says that when a person experiences enough pain, they change their behavior. Perhaps, instead of trying to alleve some of the populace's pain that they are experiencing due to the regime ... maybe we should allow them to experience it full force. Let them see that it isn't working.
We do not owe it to the world to try to fix all of the world's problems. If someplace wants our help, and is eager to work with it, fine. But, if they don't want us there, who are we to say they have to take our help?
The locals want to kill aid workers? Fine. They can figure out how to be self-sufficient, and if it doesn't work, maybe they would be more receptive.
One of the models of human behavior change says that when a person experiences enough pain, they change their behavior. Perhaps, instead of trying to alleve some of the populace's pain that they are experiencing due to the regime ... maybe we should allow them to experience it full force. Let them see that it isn't working.