Dear Abhi09:

I read a good part of the article about India’s farmers plight, their pain and suicide rates and it is very sad. I think that your idea of putting the issue out there on social media is a good idea if you have a plan on how to help India’s farmers in danger of the financial devastation of loans that are impossible to pay, if you have a solution in mind for part of the problem if not all of it. Just putting it out there is not a good idea because cruelty and injustice are so very, very common that we, people, need not hear about more and more…if there is nothing we can do. If there is nothing we can do, our empathy is abused and we end up feeling more helpless. Money donations to so many causes are abused so often and so much of every dollar spent, that this is a consideration as well.

I have an idea and if you agree with it, maybe you and I can join forces. This idea is not popular and highly controversial but I believe it is a good idea: to limit increase in human population, in other words: less births, less babies, less children… This applies not only to farmers in India but to any pregnant mother who is faced with circumstances that are very unfavorable to the future child: anywhere from mental illnesses, drug addictions, to … well, these two only- an epidemic in the U.S. are enough to consider- so my idea is discourage bringing new people into very unfavorable circumstances were the new people are very likely to suffer the pain of their parents.

If you agree with me, I am willing to join efforts in reducing human population, let me know.

anita

Dear Abhishek:

i do hope decisions to ease the pain of Indian farmers are made.

More of my thoughts about helping the farmers, some specific ideas and some general as the suggestion I already made:

International organizations, such as the UN will intervene in the business of a particular country if they decision makers (in the UN) consider the suffering of the people … catastrophic enough. They have their guidelines- I am supposing- of what constitutes a suffering severe enough to justify interfering with a country’s internal affairs, like human rights issues.

Then I was thinking, the Indian government is not likely to listen to foreigners, people of other countries commenting on the country’s affairs and are more likely (although often not…) to listen to Indian citizens expressing outrage about what is happening in the country. So letting the decision makers know your outrage as an individual, gathering signatures, things like that… as seems to have been already done.

Also, if let’s say, a group of the currently suffering farmers are chosen to receive money for life improvement of all farmers, the following is going to happen: if there is a possibility of abuse of that money, some of the now suffering farmers, the now victims, will become the victimizes of other farmers, and the money received by them will end up in a Swiss bank for their personal use, with a rationalization like: I suffered enough, now it is my turn to enjoy! This is human nature. So management of money directed at improving the life of farmers has to be micromanaged by conscientious people… that’s a tough one.

It seems to me that the loans to the farmers, well, this is easy to figure, that the interests on those loans have to come down significantly. That is easy to figure, that it needs to be done!

Please post again with updates and your thoughts!

anita