western civilization should share with the less fortunate or not?
well westerners get everything they want people are dieing of starvation. should we be sharing more if we have the ability to stop it? if we have the power to help someone arnt we obligated to do so?
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Yes. Thats why we "should" help but obligating people to pay up is not right. Why is it a man responsibility to care for a distant stranger if he is unaware of this strangers existence? You are right I have no more right to resources than you. In fact I am not entitled to them. They are however in front of me in my possession and recognized as my own. I believe in helping but forcing people to pay is a heavy burden. If we do not know someone in this situation and simply cannot communicate with them what do we do if we are unaware of their existence? If we communicate and you ask for help people will do so. This way you have shown existence and we can help if we want to(which morally is something we should all do). Yes; but. While there might be a moral obligation to share with the less fortunate; I'm inclined to question the wisdom of "conditional sharing". As it stand, there are conditions on things like foreign aid. You can have this food to feed your people; but first you have to change your policies so that they're more beneficial to me. That seems to be a system that has historically backfired all too often. 1
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the boarder between two country's should not mean you have more rights to land you posses, people on earth need to share with the less fortunate. the world is money driven and bigger nations are way more developed also have an unfair advantage over number of resources provided. we have so much food well other countrys are dieing. we have the ability to help. it is our obligation to. 1
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If you want the resources of another country and they won't share with you, then do what the rest of us did. Fight for it and take it. If you want to share in the benefits another country provides it's citizens, migrate there; legally or illegally. Telling the world that they should share does not work ;) 1
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fair enough. but do you find it wrong at all we close off our boarders and claim such a huge patch of land like canada or the u.s and say none but us can have anything inside our boarders? we have no much and leave little for others. were all equal and should all benefit from what the earth has to offer 1
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In order to do what you suggest, we would have to get rid of government. People have a tendency to group together and this is the basis of government. The reason this happens is because there is strength in numbers. If people were to loath being dependent on another human being, then your idea could work. Right or wrong has to place in this argument. It's like saying, "It's not fair." Well..., so what? Life is not fair and I don't see it changing any time soon ;) 1
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