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When people suffer in poverty, they lose all reason and turn to desperation. The alternative to such unhinged behaviour would be starvation and death. This is why people turn to crime. They will steal, they will kill, they will join terrorists, just to live and stave off death, starvation, and violence. This is why families torture their children. They will force them to work, turn them into brain-dead copies of themselves, fearing that a fun life will lead to poverty again. These, to me, are destructive against a person's life, limiting them by killing their dreams and forcing them to repeat this cycle to their own children. It is tempting to say that these make me ashamed of being a Chinese. That is why if charities fail, a government should take more action to save the poor from descending into greater acts of madness. If not, we should encourage people to help the poor, to stop them from dragging society into even more chaos and self-destruction. POVERTY IS THE ROOT OF

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