Poverty in Third World Countries
Helping poor people is ethical behavior and everyone should do it in order to continue our lives. Every year, there are millions of people at risk of going hungry. There are ways people can end poverty all around the world. People can eliminate poverty if we work together to fight it and avoid selfishness. Rich countries often give financial aid to poor countries, but it does not solve poverty. People always say they feel sorry for poor people and the rich love them, but they never do their part. People do not prevent themselves from buying things that are not necessary to them. That money could be donated to people who are in need of it. There are many people in rich countries living a luxurious life, while others in poor countries are starving but cannot find anything to eat. People in rich countries are buying more than their needs. For example, many teenagers in developed countries have more than one video game. People also buy too much clothes that they are not using. The proper way of helping poor people, just give them only what they are need such as foods and money, or educational experiences from developed countries which helps them to change their situations. Food and money are going to run out, but education and experience never run out. The kinds of education and experiences that would help the poor: teaching sustainable agriculture, planting trees, and teaching them how to use their resources. “Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day; teach him how to fish and he will eat for the rest of his days.” Rich nations must provide poor nations the elements and the possibility to develop themselves. In contrast, Developed nations want poor nations to remain as they are: poor. In order to control them, they have a dependent relationship, and determine their economic situations. In both reading “Lifeboat Ethics,” and “The singer solution to world poverty,” they argue about wealth helping the poor. In “Lifeboat Ethics,” Garrett Hardin suggests