Question

What ethical responsibility do we as a society have to others and to the world? Use one of the following topics to make your point: war, immigration, or economic assistance. Include a theory from the readings to support your thinking.

Answer 1

one of the most important things about the world today is that it is stratified into various economies and tiers such as, developed, developing and underdeveloped. While people in the developed countries enjoy more access to quality food, housing, education, lifestyle etc., people in other second and third world countries suffer in poverty, unemployment and lack of facilities and infrastructure causing more inequality. However, almost all the developed countries exploited the developing and poor countries in developing themselves while causing great environmental havoc on people by depleting all the resources. Utilitarian ethics suggests that an act would be considered ethical if it maximizes benefit to maximum number of people and reduce any harm. It’s from here Peter Singer suggests in his Absolute Poverty and utilitarianism that people in the developed countries have a moral responsibility to contribute to the welfare of people in the poor countries and distance shouldn’t be an issue. The contribution that people in the developed countries would mean nothing but for those who receive, it would be everything. It would make a huge change in the lives of those people.

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