I read Life Boat Ethics: The Case against helping the poor. This happened to be one of my personal favorites of the essays I have read out of this book. The essay talks about how the world is growing so rapidly in some places and it has a lot different outlooks on the world compared to most things I have read. It talked about all the poor countries and poor people the world and that if they keep reproducing there will be so many people in this world that we will not be able to support all of them. In this essay, the author used several logos, pathos and ethos in his essay to make his points come across more clearly and to put more enthusiasm on certain points. He used logos for the majority of his paper; using facts and statistics helped
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If our population keeps doubling and heading in the direction it is going there will be too many people for our country to effectively manage. “Let us imagine 210 million people, say the combined population of Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela, Morocco, Pakistan, Thailand, and the Philippines, who are increasing at a rate of 3.3 percent per year the population will double in 21 years instead of 87.” He used this logo shortly after he used the previously quoted. With this logo, he is trying to explain that if the people and government of the wealthier countries keep helping the poor countries, the population of those in poverty will continue to rise at an even quicker rate. It is a proven fact that the lower income countries are doubling their population before the larger and more fortunate ones. Garrett Hardin, the author of this essay, is trying to explain this topic as survival of the fittest by saying that the wealthier countries and the people that …show more content…
One of his major points was to argue that if we keep sharing all of your resources with other counties that are rapidly increasing in population we will not have enough to fend for ourselves and we will be the ones who have to pay for the costs in the end.
In this great article about the world population and how it rapidly increasing in different parts of the world, it goes into depth and talks about how the United States should go about helping these other countries of poverty that are in need. Garrett Hardin, the author of the Lifeboat Ethic: The Case against Helping the Poor, uses several logos and pathos to get his point across, and help us better understand his logic. After reading this article I totally agree in what he is saying, in that we do not need to spend everything we have on trying to help the people of countries around the world that are in
If our population keeps doubling and heading in the direction it is going there will be too many people for our country to effectively manage. “Let us imagine 210 million people, say the combined population of Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela, Morocco, Pakistan, Thailand, and the Philippines, who are increasing at a rate of 3.3 percent per year the population will double in 21 years instead of 87.” He used this logo shortly after he used the previously quoted. With this logo, he is trying to explain that if the people and government of the wealthier countries keep helping the poor countries, the population of those in poverty will continue to rise at an even quicker rate. It is a proven fact that the lower income countries are doubling their population before the larger and more fortunate ones. Garrett Hardin, the author of this essay, is trying to explain this topic as survival of the fittest by saying that the wealthier countries and the people that …show more content…
One of his major points was to argue that if we keep sharing all of your resources with other counties that are rapidly increasing in population we will not have enough to fend for ourselves and we will be the ones who have to pay for the costs in the end.
In this great article about the world population and how it rapidly increasing in different parts of the world, it goes into depth and talks about how the United States should go about helping these other countries of poverty that are in need. Garrett Hardin, the author of the Lifeboat Ethic: The Case against Helping the Poor, uses several logos and pathos to get his point across, and help us better understand his logic. After reading this article I totally agree in what he is saying, in that we do not need to spend everything we have on trying to help the people of countries around the world that are in