The number of elements in the periodic table in car types: ICV, hybrid and plug in hybrid.

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8. These are all good points, but poverty goes even deeper than exclusion from...

...than exclusion from what you correctly deem "automobile and bacon cults."

The thing that blows my mind is that people are excluded from simple and safe sanitation, from clean water and most tragically, education. These things are necessities to my mind.

What I see when I look at photographs of those child cobalt miners in the "DRC" is the survivors growing into justifiably angry, and unjustifiably ignorant, men and women with nothing to lose and understandable and traceable hatred in their hearts.

These are the kinds of people who grow up become suicide bombers, who grow up to hijack planes and drive them into buildings, people with no understanding of tolerance and forgiveness because they way they grew up was intolerable and unforgivable.

We allow poverty at our own risk; our risk is not what should motivate us to address it; but if our moral depth is such that we cannot address it with our humanity and compassion, if selfishness is all we have for motivation, we should still do the right thing for less laudable reasons than doing the right thing for the right reason.