Adam without Borders

After this week I really want to work for Médecins Sans Frontières. I've done a bit of research about them and Médecins du Monde. Both are humanitarian organizations started by former French Communists that have not always maintained neutrality in the face of agression, unlike the Red Cross. They take much of the morality out of humanitarian work and focus on the people, and at least MSF seems to be very good at what they do, for what they are trying to do. But I'm not a doctor. But now I'm thinking that might be really awesome. I always felt that being a doctor would either be really lame (prescribing really fat rich people cholesterol meds) or really depressing (watching people die) but now I'm realizing that I really like taking on impossible things, because it takes the guess work out. You don't have to worry about success, you just do the best you can.

Anyway, I really like the philosophy they work with, because they are willing to take sides for the benefit of people, not just maintaining "neutrality" for their own well-being. I found this passage:

'the political positions of MDM in armed conflicts are not linked to a strictly speaking partisan ideology. In a book edited by Marie-José Domestici-Met, three MDM executives, Bernard Granjon, Michel Brugière and Pierre Pradier, say that “the organisation chooses its side”, that “of the most deprived”.'

And with the MDM, allegedly, sometimes that includes literal fighting. That's what I think the world really needs in a supra-national organization or NGO; an organization that is willing to step in and do the right thing. Humanitarian organizations are too concerned with maintaining their neutral status to be effective, other countries and national groups are too self-interested (after all, they are most often involved in the perpetration of the disaster), and the UN and other supra-nationals, as constituted by these national groups are either directed towards that national interest or given no power so as not to interfere with that national interest. I'm thinking of almost a League of Heroes sort of thing, that has no politics except to fight for the people who are being fucked up. That would really throw a wrench in international politics. The problem is, how would they be funded (Bruce Wayne?), and where would the secret lair be, because after about 20 years they probably would have had to piss off every major government on the planet at least once.