The Singer Solution To World Poverty, By Peter Singer
In today’s society, many people will value materialistic objects more wanting to have the newest technology or the best brand of electronics rather than helping out a person by just giving them a simple smile. Money is spent on things that are not worth spending that may be useful for another occasion. In the text, “The Singer Solution to World Poverty,” Peter Singer persuades the readers on how many will have the opportunity to help out a charity and donate money, but people will not take the chance or time to do it. In the other text “On Dumpster Diving” Lars Eighner informs the readers when he was a homeless person and he had to go looking for food in different dumpsters. Eighner explains the ways that a homeless person is able to distinguish
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He does not find a way to make people feel guilt or to regret what they are doing because he mentions the ways that homeless people will still survive even if they are not able to provide the food themselves. Many people will judge a homeless person when they are picking out of the trash and feel bad for them, but Eighner is careless on what others think. He says, “Their first reaction is usually to be disgusted or to pity the person doing the digging. They feel sorry for them, when they should be feeling sorry for themselves instead.” (Eighner) Eighner is saying that they should feel sorry for themselves because homeless people have more intelligence than most of the population knowing what is good and what is not. Homeless people always ask, “Why was this discarded” to know if they should eat a type of food. (Eighner) Being homeless, Eighner has learned to appreciate the things he has more because he sees what a person has to go through to earn everything. Losing his job and becoming homeless did not put him down, but it helped him use his intelligence to survive even when he has nothing. He believes that society will view everything as materialistic objects, but now he has learned to view the materialistic objects as things that are not necessary. He ends the essay quoting “I feel sorry for them.” (Eighner 151) He feels sorry for the people that are getting caught up with materialistic objects and do not see the deeper side of it. They do not realize that it is not worth it until it is gone and they do not have anything
He does not find a way to make people feel guilt or to regret what they are doing because he mentions the ways that homeless people will still survive even if they are not able to provide the food themselves. Many people will judge a homeless person when they are picking out of the trash and feel bad for them, but Eighner is careless on what others think. He says, “Their first reaction is usually to be disgusted or to pity the person doing the digging. They feel sorry for them, when they should be feeling sorry for themselves instead.” (Eighner) Eighner is saying that they should feel sorry for themselves because homeless people have more intelligence than most of the population knowing what is good and what is not. Homeless people always ask, “Why was this discarded” to know if they should eat a type of food. (Eighner) Being homeless, Eighner has learned to appreciate the things he has more because he sees what a person has to go through to earn everything. Losing his job and becoming homeless did not put him down, but it helped him use his intelligence to survive even when he has nothing. He believes that society will view everything as materialistic objects, but now he has learned to view the materialistic objects as things that are not necessary. He ends the essay quoting “I feel sorry for them.” (Eighner 151) He feels sorry for the people that are getting caught up with materialistic objects and do not see the deeper side of it. They do not realize that it is not worth it until it is gone and they do not have anything