Argumentative Essay On Global Poverty

One of the most perceptible and large-scale global justice problem world is facing today is the issue of the global poverty. Nowadays more than 1 billion people live in extreme poverty - the condition of people who live less than $1.90 per day, which dismisses them to fulfill their basic needs. To contrast, the average citizen of the USA earns around $26 per hour. According to the originator of the modern dialogue on global distributive justice Rawls book «Law of Peoples», we should ensure that all people are meeting their basic needs. Who is the responsible for that? And is that enough to ensure that people in well-ordered society are meeting their basic needs or there is something more than just that? Many modern political philosophers

Here and after, the positive duty defines as moral obligation to help the poor due to the fact that poor has a positive right to food, housing, public education and etc and it implies that others has a positive duty to them. The negative duty is a duty to do not harm other because of violation of their negative rights such as freedom of speech, slavery, private property and etc. Pogge (2004b) in his article «The Real World Justice» claims that we have more stringent negative duties, rather than positive to help the worse-off, because we are harming the poor creating radical inequality. Radical inequality is the condition where the worse-off are very much worse-off than others. This radical inequality involves us in the worst crime committed against humanity - to violate our negative duties in three different ways. Firstly, the radical inequality was created during the colonization era, especially in the case of the most poorest continent Africa. According to Pogge, the rich countries were slaving a colonized people, destroying their culture and institutions, as well as using their natural resources for their own sake. Secondly, the radical inequality occurs because of excluding the poor from a proportional share of the natural resources. Thirdly, shared institutional order contributes to the radical inequality due to the fact that it is shaped by the better-off and imposed to the worse-off. GRD is suggested. All three arguments lead me to accept that we, the citizens of developed states, are harming the global poor. Thus, it sounds plausible that we have a strong negative duties towards the assistance of the poor, as it was states by