Utilitarian Argument Analysis

I, as a senior at Rutgers University, am one of hundreds of millions of people who could devote a substantial quantity of less money on things that do not boost any effectiveness but my own. For the equivalent quantity of money I spend on an iClicker, I could provide a family in Zimbabwe access to the fundamental necessities of life. Singer argues we have widespread obligations to the world's poor, and we can meet them without being deprived of all of our worldly assets and possessions, and without any loss of quality of life. I agree with Singer's arguments that we, as humans, have a moral obligation to help those in poverty.
Singer's position on our moral obligation to aid the world's poor is characteristically frank and rests on three premises. …show more content…
It does, nevertheless, infer that a utilitarian objection to a utilitarian argument would present an essential and potentially dangerous threat to the argument's credibility. Perhaps the most serious challenge and criticism to the argument that we have a duty to aid the poor is that because the main reason of poverty is overpopulation. In addition, aiding those currently in poverty will only guarantee that yet more people are born to exist in poverty in the future. I believe this objection generates the foundation for a thought-provoking discussion. Those who approve and concur with the objection are prone to adopt a view supporting a triage policy for long-term poverty prevention. We should think of ourselves as the occupiers of a packed lifeboat drifting with purposeless in a deep blue ocean filled of drowning people. If we attempt to rescue the drowning by transporting them on board, our vessel will be congested and we will all drown. Do some have to die in order for some to …show more content…
But, the opposing view would argue basically that poverty is a consequence of defective distribution and that population containment through a triage policy, or any policy, is bad parenting and quite easily solvable. There is a overabundance of food to provide and support the world's population if more efficiently distributed and industrial advances are making this is more realistic and plausible. “Population growth is not a reason against giving aid but a reason for reconsidering the type of aid to give”(2011: 209).
The case to accept triage is as vulnerable and as sensitive to the equivalent danger it poses to the debate to aid the needy. Credible solutions being redistribution of wealth and contraception must be studied and tested before considering adopting such an approach. I believe that a course of action that will undoubtedly generate some benefit is to be chosen over a different course that may set path to a slightly larger benefit, but is equally possible to end in no benefit at all. A coin has two sides. Therefore, this objection cannot be morally