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Analysis Of The Video Slumming It
In the video “Slumming It”, you see a very underdeveloped town in India. The homes that families live in are very small, but are shared with extended families. In every corner of the roads is a lot of trash and many children playing near the trash and sewers. The people that live there are happy and believe the place they live is the norm. Near by the poor city is a city that is not poor at all. They have million dollar homes and only share it with few people. Should this city help the underdeveloped city? Nozick and Rawls have very different ideas of what the rich city Mumbai should do. “Rawls argues that “well ordered” people have a duty to assist people burdened by unfavorable conditions” (Pogge and Horton 431). Rawls believes every person
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