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Hunger and Poverty

Chapter 9 discusses the complexities of living with scarcity, focusing on world hunger and poverty. It presents arguments for and against helping other countries, including moral, utilitarian, and libertarian perspectives. The chapter emphasizes the importance of effective aid and the need for both short-term relief and long-term assistance strategies.

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Hunger and Poverty

Chapter 9 discusses the complexities of living with scarcity, focusing on world hunger and poverty. It presents arguments for and against helping other countries, including moral, utilitarian, and libertarian perspectives. The chapter emphasizes the importance of effective aid and the need for both short-term relief and long-term assistance strategies.

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Chapter 9

Living with Scarcity


World Hunger and
Poverty
Background: The Statistics

• Extreme Poverty
• Guilt and Denial
• The Gap: American and European
Affluence
• The Income and Wealth Gap: The Elite
and the Rest of Us

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The Case for Helping Other
Countries
• The Argument from the Virtue of
Compassion
– The Moral Force of Suffering
– Aristotle’s Account of Virtue
– Compassion as a Virtue
– The Issue of Luck
– The Place of Children

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The Case for Helping Other
Countries
• The Issue of Complicity
• The Group Egoist Argument
• The Strict Utilitarian Argument
• The Basic Rights Argument
• The Kantian Imperfect Duty Argument
• Kant on Perfect and Imperfect Duties
– The Duty of Benevolence

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Smart Aid: Learning to Help Well

• We must not only ask, “Should we help?”


but also, “ How can we best help?”
• The Human Component of Natural
Disasters
– Hurricane Katrina
– The Global Picture

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Smart Aid: Learning to Help Well

• Disaster Relief
• Disaster Relief and Local Corruption
• National Pride
– Foreign aid
• From Disaster Relief to the Alleviation of
World Poverty

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The Case Against Helping Other
Countries
• The Lifeboat Argument
– Hardin’s Lifeboat Metaphor
– Evaluating Hardin’s Metaphor
– Carrying Capacity
– Sinking Together
– Lifeboats and Luxury Liners

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The Case Against Helping Other
Countries
– Who Dumped Us in the Water?
– All in One Boat?
• The Effectiveness Argument
• The Libertarian Argument
• The Particularity Argument
• The Liberal State Argument

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Diversity and Consensus

• Short-Term Relief
– Empirical issues concerning effectiveness
• Long-Term Assistance
– Self-sustaining
• A Common World

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