Moral Obligations

In many situations, people tend to believe the idea that helping others is the right or the best decision to make. They also believe that no matter what situation we are in it is our obligation to help others as long as we do not lead ourselves to misery. Here is where people should consider ethics to make the best choices in their lives. Countless of people agree that if we have what it takes to help others, then it is in our hands to do the change that can benefit others to have a better future. Helping others does not mean we have to harm ourselves. Instead, helping others is giving them the right to have what they should have by nature. Sometimes in helping others, we have consider their natural rights, make sacrifices, and acknowledge, as a majority, that humanity issues should be a concern for us to solve the problem. …show more content…
Then the person we are helping can feel what it feels like to spread the happiness around. In the chapter of “World Hunger and Moral Obligation,” the philosopher John Arthur argues that not everyone is entitled to help others because they do not have the obligation to protect others’ rights. He subsequently explains that such right comes from what he calls ‘negative rights’ or those that are noninterference such as the right to life, right to privacy, and right of freedom. (Arthur 849). What he means is that we should not feel responsible for helping others if we do not want to since we have never formally agreed to help them. However, such statement does not provide enough evidence of why we must not provide them the needs that every person needs for their survival. We should take in consideration that in order for a human to live, they must have food and shelter. Therefore, to protect someone’s negative rights, we must provide the positive rights-- for example, food and