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    Tragedy of the Commons: An Interminable Paradox Essayist Garrett Hardin, in his paper, “Lifeboat Ethics: The Case against Helping the Poor”, argues that human beings are involved in a slowly increasing state of world devastation as they continue to misuse the world’s resources and, consequently, refuse to provide the adequate resources in return for their plundering. Hardin’s purpose is to educate the intellectual public of this matter so that measures might be taken and unreasonable solutions…

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    Garrett Hardin Population

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    In this essay, Garrett Hardin exposes and problem the world is enduring without many humans even realizing. He first mentions the relationship between the world population and resources and concluded that the population must be brought under control. In his essay he formulated solutions to the problem at hand. Hardin rejected the hope that improved food production technology will allow an infinite increase in population. The world cannot provide progression in both the population and quality of…

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    satire to get across his point that not only is the world overpopulated, its’ population that is wealthy is not, and should not have to be feeding the many children that it does have. Garrett Hardin also brings up some of the same things in “Lifeboat Ethics: the Case Against Helping the Poor.” Not only does Hardin let the fact be known that children are not getting fed, he wants the readers to think as if the world is on a lifeboat and could save a lot of people, but should the population let…

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    The definition of an ideal “good life” can vary from person to person based on their values, experiences and beliefs. Numerous individuals struggle with trying to search for what type of person one would have to be to live the good life well. Is it the person who donates every penny to charity? Is it the person who contributes to society through positive actions? Or is it the person who is concerned with their success? There are some that believe that living a good life is based on just one…

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    Morality” and Garrett Hardin’s “Lifeboat ethics” are contradictory philosophical works that examine whether scarce resources should be shared with the poor. Singer’s argument is that “suffering and death from lack of food, shelter and medical care are bad" (Singer, 1972); therefore all people become morally obligated to help the poor. While Hardin argues that ethics of a Lifeboat should be followed because there is a finite amount of resources available at our disposal (Hardin, 1974,…

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    In Garrett Hardin’s paper, “Lifeboat Ethics: The Case against Helping the Poor,” Harden uses the analogy of a lifeboat being a nation. He intends to offer his opinion, while explaining why his theory, “Lifeboat Ethics,” is more accurate than a previous theory, “Spaceship Earth” (Hardin, 358). Throughout the paper he explains that by the rich supporting the poor, they are enabling the poor to continue in their destructive ways and to ultimately cause “environmental ruin” (Hardin, 366).…

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    There are new lives being brought into this world everyday even though our resources are dwindling down as we speak. In “A Modest Proposal” by Jonathan Swift and “Lifeboat Ethics” by Garrett Hardin, each author uses a different method of appeals to propose to their readers a way to help our ever growing population. Hardin uses more of a logic based argument, using facts and figures to back up his statements. Swift takes a wildly different approach by using a satirical “speaker” to bring a more…

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    but due to lack of money or space available in the classrooms, they are left outside the lifeboat. In Garrett Hardin’s essay, “Lifeboat Ethics: The Case against Helping the Poor”, Hardin argues that “a nation’s land has a limited capacity to support a population and as the current energy crisis has shown us, in some ways we have already exceeded the carrying capacity of our land” (415). Hardin provides several solutions before he ultimately acknowledges that they will not work and finally states…

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    Definitively, could one ever truly define what it means to live a good life? Under what parameters does one define it and achieve it? Undoubtedly, one would expect to receive a barrage of opinions and anecdotes from people that claim they reached the highest prestige of life. Nevertheless, one could derive varying tidbits and underlying themes from many, if not most, of the advice and lifestyle tips. One may consider the generic definition of having a good life as having a life marked by a…

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    Case against Helping the Poor,” Garrett Hardin argues that if the prosperous continue to help the penurious, this will cause overpopulation in the country. Many people are faced with the question of should they help or should they not. Hardin uses real world examples and an extended metaphor to argue his point. The rich countries are viewed as a lifeboat and the poor countries are the people swimming in the ocean hoping to get in. Since resources are scarce, Hardin argues resources should not be…

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