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A 4 page paper which analyzes aspects of Garrett Hardin’s The Case Against Helping the Poor. No additional sources cited.
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presents in relationship to arguing that the wealthy nations of the world should not necessarily be helping impoverished nations. While many people would argue that people should help others in
need, others will argue that everyone should perhaps ultimately help themselves, or their own people and/or nation. In truth, there are many ways in which one could look at this
particular topic. With that in mind the following paper analyzes different aspects of Hardins essay. The Case Against Helping the Poor by Garrett Hardin The first aspect of
Hardins work to be analyzed, and argued, is that which involves his argument that the planet, and human life on the planet, can be compared to living in a lifeboat
in relationship to the notion of the earth being a "spaceship." In the perspective that the earth is a spaceship one assumes that all human beings are in the same
boat, on the same boat, and living on the same planet. He immediately, however, indicates that such a spaceship would have a captain and there is no captain of the
earth. Hardin does not really seem to take into consideration the perspective that speaks of all humans being equally worthy of life and this is what people generally mean when
they think of the earth as a spaceship. People who argue that it is a spaceship argue that there is limited space, to be sure, but that also all people
are vulnerable to the same conditions and the same dangers that involve the nature of the planet. Hardin presents his argument with the notion that the wealthy nations are
the ones in the lifeboat, so to speak, and that while there may be a little space to let others in, most people would perhaps agree that the space should
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