[FWKevents]

I have such mixed feelings about cancer research. I don't often share this, because gifting cancer non-profits with lots of money is considered heroism of the first order in our society. When I read of these large gifts, I can't help but think about a purely economical model of human generosity. How many lives will be saved with this large gift, vs. how many lives could be saved in the developing world with the same amount of money? It makes me cringe every time to think that all lives are not valued equally. Otherwise the gifting of large sums of money to possibly save people at some point in the future, who have enough money to afford expensive cancer treatment vs. definitely, absolutely right now saving large numbers of people who have no potable water, little sanitation and need basic care like vaccines and public health education.

[mr90210]

Hi mate, that's a good remark. I appreciate it. The reason I didn't mention problems in the development world, is because I came from one, and I know that money, or rather large sums of it would help my country. Politicians would steel it, just like they've been doing. I talking strictly about my country, which is located in Subsaharan Africa (West).

But, I do know that we would benefit a lot from having cure for Cancer, AIDS and other diseases.

Other issues such as poverty, clean water, electricity, at least in my country they are solvable by having people in charge who actually want to solve them. Again, I am talking about my country.