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Lifeboat Ethics and Famine, Affluence and Morality



Lifeboat Ethics and Famine, Affluence and Morality

Introduction

The study discusses the Garrett Hardin's article, Lifeboat Ethics: The Case against Helping the Poor and the Famine, Affluence and Morality. The article's premise is based on the Malthusian Dilemma: that as population is allowed to increase, quality of life decreases due to the increased demand for resources, increasing death rates and reducing birth rates so as to return population to a sustainable level. Hardin takes this principle and applies it to international aid to the poor and states that getting people out of impoverished conditions increases ...