Should We Help the Poor

Should we help the poor? According to a study shown in a piece of Russian newspaper, the poor in China is going to account for more than 19 percent of all the Chinese. Thus, a heated discussion has been raised that whether we should help the poor. And in my opinion, we should help the poor, but we should help them rationally. Individually, we are supposed to help the poor out of virtue. And if so, we can fulfill our life more meaningfully. Since childhood, we have been taught that we should help those who are in need. Let’s consider it in the poor’s shoes. If we were so poor that we might starve, we would definitely carry the hope that someone may come to help us. Besides, helping the poor is bound to be a great gratification to us since we achieve something significant for both us and someone else. And achieving ourselves and repaying the society is actually one of the highest-level pursuits of human being. More broadly from the perspective of society, helping the poor contributes to narrow down the gap between the rich and the poor, promoting harmony and stableness of the society. It is partly by the poor living conditions that someone is driven to steal or rob, with no helping offered or no living method taught. As a result, it can be easily inferred that helping the poor can unquestionably reduce the crime rate in a way, doing good to the harmony of our world. On the other hand, if we overlook the situation of the poor, widening the discrepancy between the rich and the poor, social unrest may be lead to, for countless social unrest was caused by inequalities in wealth in the past. However, the great visions above should be based on the principle that we help the poor with what we are capable of. And the saying should always be borne in mind that give a man a fish, he will eat it for the rest of the day; but teach him how to fish, he will eat for the rest of his days. In summary, with the consideration from both individual angle and