Feeding North Korea - Megan McArdle - Business - The Atlantic

Feeding North Korea - Megan McArdle - Business - The Atlantic: "Policy choices are often framed for us as a choice between compassion and something else--selfishness, moralism, rigid rule-following.  But when you take into account systemic effects, the 'obvious' compassionate choice--the one that our hearts urgently impel us towards--often isn't so obviously the best one.  North Korea had a bad harvest this year, but the problem isn't their bad harvest--it's a political and economic system that leaves the country forever one harvest away from utter disaster.  "