Essays Tagged: "Lifeboat ethics"

"Poverty Anonymous": How the US sould handle foreign aid.

POVERTY ANONYMOUSIn dealing with impoverished countries, Hardin likens the situation to a lifeboat, wherein there are only enough places for so many people and only enough food for that exac ... oser observation reveals it is only true to a certain extent. And as Cousins (1992) points out, the lifeboat view is actually only a selfish desensitization and no help at all. Cousin also points out ...

(6 pages) 83 0 2.5 Feb/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays

Critique #3 Lifeboat Ethics: The Case Against "Aid" that Harms By Garrett Hardin

Critique #3Lifeboat Ethics: The Case Against "Aid" that HarmsBy Garrett HardinAfter reading the above reading b ... king about world hunger.His strongest points in the article were "each rich nation can be seen as a lifeboat full of comparatively rich people, and in the ocean outside each lifeboat swim the poor wor ... s just trying to take up more space. Overall the whole article had no bearing on my worldview of my lifeboat.

(2 pages) 41 0 4.0 Aug/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Language Studies > Writing

Starving

should the rich countries be expected to provide for the less fortunate? Garrett Hardin, author of "Lifeboat Ethics: The Case against Aid That Harms" states that each country has a carrying capacity a ... using financial strain on themselves. In Hardin's article, the nations of the world are compared to lifeboats with the rich sitting inside and the poor swimming in the oceans outside. Hardin explains ...

(3 pages) 66 1 2.0 Nov/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays

Response to Garrett Hardin's article "Lifeboat Ethics: The Case against Helping the Poor."

I find a few things wrong with Garrett Hardin's article "Lifeboat Ethics: The Case against Helping the Poor." The dominant argument I have against his articl ... so there is no reason to allow others to have ideas of their own.Here is how Hardin describes the "lifeboat" of our world: "If we divide the world crudely into rich nations and poor nations, two thir ... ely rich, with the United States the wealthiest of all. Metaphorically each nation can be seen as a lifeboat full of comparatively rich people. In the ocean outside each lifeboat swim the poor of the ...

(2 pages) 49 0 0.0 Dec/2006

Subjects: Humanities Essays

A Critique of "Lifeboat Ethics: The Case Against Helping the Poor"

eloped nations receive food by the United Nations' World Food Programme. Within his article titled "Lifeboat Ethics: the Case Against Helping the Poor", Garret Hardin, a well-known philosopher of ecol ... the preservation of well-to-do societies is embodied by his extended metaphor of each society as a lifeboat, with the citizens of developed nations riding calmly amongst a sea of drowning poverty-str ...

(12 pages) 83 0 5.0 Oct/2007

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy

Multinational Companies

mpanies are heartless and treat workers as slaves giving them diminutive wages for their work. The lifeboat ethics concept is the best way to describe these heartless firms. The concept of Lifeboat ... share of its resources (Psychology Today, 54). Obviously, this is not happening. The philosophy of Lifeboat Ethics sees each wealthy nation as a lifeboat full of rich people. In the ocean outside th ...

(8 pages) 50 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management

Multinational companies

mpanies are heartless and treat workers as slaves giving them diminutive wages for their work. The lifeboat ethics concept is the best way to describe these heartless firms. The concept of Lifeboat ... share of its resources (Psychology Today, 54). Obviously, this is not happening. The philosophy of Lifeboat Ethics sees each wealthy nation as a lifeboat full of rich people. In the ocean outside th ...

(8 pages) 22 0 5.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management

Lifeboat ethics

Critical Review: Hardin, Garret. Lifeboat Ethics: the Case Against Helping the Poor. Psychology Today. 1974Lifeboat Rules of a Life V ... e real for everyone? The writer Garret harden, ecologist researching overpopulation, in his article Lifeboat Ethics: the Case Against Helping the Poor gives major arguments that would both agree with ... t salvation is "tough love" (ref., 1) that would save the planet, or better called "spaceship" than lifeboat. Hardin suggests several ways to overcome the issues. He suggests we better show the minor ...

(4 pages) 0 0 0.0 Mar/2014

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community

Summary of Living on a Lifeboat

ther cases it can be nearly suicidal to the point that you are trying to make. Hardin uses the term lifeboat as a metaphor because it immediately makes the reader think of human survival, which proper ... rly exemplifies the severity of the issues that he talks about.Garret Hardin's piece on living on a lifeboat is about helping others so much that our lifeboat can drown. The lifeboat itself is a metap ...

(4 pages) 1 0 0.0 Sep/2014

Subjects: Humanities Essays