SUPERMARKETS FOR POOR PEOPLE In Vietnam‚ there are some duty-free supermarkets that serving people in buying goods and foods with “10-15 percent lower than common prices” like Moc Bai supermarkets at Vietnamese-Cambodian frontier (“Duty-free supermarket opens in Moc Bai economic zone”‚ 2009). It is seen as a good idea to help people having things with reasonable prices. However‚ according to the Circular No. 08/2010/TT-BTC Article 2 Section 2b (Ministry of Finance‚ 2010)‚ only people aged 18 years
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Helping people in need a supererogation or an obligation People in poor nations are starving to death when we are enjoying our delicious meal with our friends and family. There are various governmental aid-projects and privately run charities which are responsible for delivering donations from the relatively wealthy nations to the nations in need. I believe it is a morally right thing to help the people in need‚ but not every one of us would make donations regularly. Peter Singer uses the drowning
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A Review on Lifeboat ethics: the case against helping the poor Lifeboat ethics: the case against helping the poor is a famous essay written by Garret Hardin‚ a human ecologist in 1974. This article aims to re-examine the lifeboat ethics which was developed by the author to support his controversial proposal. In the theory‚ the world is compared to a lifeboat with a carrying capacity of 60. There are totally 50 people on board‚ representing comparatively rich nations‚ while the 100 others swimming
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the cry of the poor‚ they also shall cry themselves‚ but not be heard” (proverbs 21:13) in the Bible. This full of meaning photograph shows a really deep and sadful reality which is living under the red line of poverty. Looking deep in this photo you can see and realize a painful reality‚ a miserable life that no one wish to live. The economic situation seems to be dead‚ there is no life‚ just misery‚ poverty‚ hunger that starving people are everywhere‚ you can also find people searching in the
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commentator: Poor People voting is ‘un-American’. Matthew Vadum claim that registering the poor to vote is un-American. Vadum goes on to claim that “registering the unproductive to vote is an idea that was heavily promoted by the small-communists Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven”. What are some ways that we can help poor people? Don’t judge people unless you have heard their story. Don’t judge a person by their circumstances because it doesn’t define their character. We can help the poor in so many
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In his article “Lifeboat Ethics: the Case Against Helping Poor‚” Garrett Hardin argues that our planet faces the problem of overpopulation. The reproduction rate in poor countries is much higher than in rich countries. Therefore‚ while population of poor nations is increasing tremendously‚ the ratio of rich nations steadily decreases. Hardin also introduces the concept of “The Tragedy of The Commons’’ and explains it as a negative effect on consumers of common resources around the world. It has already
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The best part is helping people through whatever problems people encounter like –a court situation it’s a matter of getting their ideas across to the judge- they are in court clarifieng what problem they had. one time a guy with his girlfriend‚ his child was making a fuss‚ the guy had to explain the situation‚ they were at a stop light the kid went to the front seet‚ but it’s a illegal‚ interpreting their situation‚ but he had to go to a child class‚ but in the testimony he was the passenger‚ he
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military planes towards the hot sand of their tiny village. This action was one of many attempts to help underdeveloped nations receive food by the United Nations’ World Food Programme. Within his article titled "Lifeboat Ethics: the Case Against Helping the Poor"‚ Garret Hardin‚ a well-known philosopher of ecology‚ analyzes the difficulty and ultimate ruin associated with providing aid to these nations. Hardin’s argument for the preservation of well-to-do societies is embodied by his extended metaphor
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Teberg’s fourth grade class has been an amazing experience for me so far. It is an experience I feel each student in our high school should consider. To many it will boost their self confidence in being around a younger group of people‚ as well as creating a mind set of helping others succeed. When I was in first grade I remember a similar experience where I was able to team up with a mentor as well as my whole class. I remember seeing my mentor as a person of strength and someone I could look to for
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number of poor people in Europe in the 15th through 17th centuries. There were varied attitudes and reactions towards those in poverty. The attitudes towards the poor included people feeling it was their duty and responsibility to help them‚ some people felt anger or resentment towards the poor for being “lazy”‚ and some had a religious incentive to help those in poverty. Some people’s responses were to help the poor to the best of their abilities‚ others to criticize and deprecate the poor‚ and some
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