Garrett Hardin Lifeboat Ethics Summary

In the article “Lifeboat Ethics” by Garrett Hardin, his main argument is that the present policy of supporting the poor and providing for their needs is detrimental to the lifeboat of us ie. we should not help the poor in sacrifice to ourselves. He argues because of limited resources, and a tragedy of commons, we should rule our actions thereby the ethics of the lifeboat. Hardin claims that we should direct our actions by lifeboat ethics and not share resources. In this the poor will suffer if we do not help them. Lifeboat ethics can not prove that we should not help the poor. The life-boat analogy by itself doesn’t help answer the question of limited resource allocation. One can ask what is the amount of people who can be let onto the lifeboat,