The statement social responsibilities are meant in multiple different ways, for different people. Some people believe that social responsibility goes to the people, likewise others believe it leans toward the government. …show more content…
He believes that it is an ethical theory that the government needs to help on fulfilling the needs of the people. He not only believes that the government has social responsibility, but that the elites have social responsibility as well. In the essay he mentions how the natives need to be educated about the skills required to do the more advanced jobs. The only people who are able to teach the natives is the government. The government has the power of implementing schools into South Africa, yet they still decide not to. The only way to make skilled workers is to allow them to go to schools. The way that Arthur Jarvis stated that the elites are needed to help is through rebuilding the tribal system. In the essay Jarvis states “It was permissible to allow the destruction of a tribal system that impeded the growth of the country… But it is not permissible to watch its destruction, and to replace it by nothing, or by so little, that a whole people deteriorates, physically and morally.” (Paton 71). The only true way for the tribal system to be redeveloped is through land. The only good land that is currently available is the land owned by the whites. The only true way to receive the land is if the whites would truly care enough to give the land back to the natives. Before they give back the land, there is first a need to educate the natives about the care for the land. This leads back to the idea of the government being socially responsible for the actions of the