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cynicalkane
on Dec 9, 2012
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How I coached a basketball team in Afghanistan and...
You're proposing an entire tribe throw off the culture that they grew up in, social bonds that could mean the difference between life and death, and just... go all John Galt over in Afghanistan?
w1ntermute
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Well, a lot of those people are going to die before long if they don't do something to change the destructive aspects of their culture.
So I'd say it's worth it (though highly infeasible).
javajosh
on Dec 9, 2012
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Well, yes.
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