Always Hungry

I also understand that not all humans are completely under the corrupting influence of Social Darwinism. Most people in the middle and working classes in America are not completely selfish. A lot of good comes from these two classes of people, I just generally find that it’s those with money that are more corrupt than others. A man by the name of Dr. Zimbardo, a social psychologist, said that evil is a demonstration of power. Money is power because you can buy and do most anything you want if you have enough of it (Zimbardo). Since power is evil and money is power, then money is evil. An overabundance of money is evil. And since people too involved with social Darwinism think that they are better than others because of their money, they see no reason to give their money and power away because they’re better than those without it and those without it need to be culled.

I am not a big fan of Garrett Hardin and his lifeboat ethics of letting people die to help them. Letting someone die is passive killing to those that can prevent it, but if they cannot receive help because of environmental factors like geography and the fact that they don’t get enough water year round to support themselves, then I grudgingly say that they should be left to die. This is because if they cannot be helped, then we shouldn’t even try. If sending money, food, birth control and other alternatives to helping won’t do much good to helping them help themselves because literally where they reside is unfit to live, then trying to help them would be futile and useless.

This paper has argued that if you are able to donate resources to help relieve world hunger easily then you are morally obligated to do so to lower suffering on the planet. I say if you are able because people in poverty are not obligated and those in middle class should aim for an optimal level of charity in their lives. People in the upper class of society are completely morally obligated to help as much as possible. The government should be the organizer for all of the charity that goes overseas and that charity should go in the form of sending genetically modified food, economic infrastructure, birth control, education, and money so they can better themselves. Sending aid is not counter-productive because as Kasun would say we need to invest in people themselves to bring down poverty, hunger, and to help them help themselves. Doing so would create a more egalitarian society with a better economy.