Summary Of Lifeboat Ethics

In the article “Lifeboat Ethics: the Case Against Helping the Poor”, Hardin defines the concept of lifeboat ethics and discusses the American immigration policy. Harden gives the example of people in the lifeboat which represent people in the rich countries and those who are swimming outside as people in poor countries. He argues that people in the lifeboat should not let anyone in because sharing resources is detrimental to the survival of people inside the lifeboat. Similarly, in Twilight; Los Angeles there people who are wealthy privileged people who in the lifeboat and poor people in South Central that who would be considered the people swimming outside. For example, Elaine Young a real estate agent who was worried that her favorite hotel

There is term “white privilege” used often in the mainstream media which argues that there are societal privileges that benefit white people in Western countries that other people of different races might not have. For example the Black Lives Matter movement that protest police brutality against African American men. They argue that people who are African American get treated differently by the police because of their race and that they are unjustly targeted in traffic stops. African Americans constitute the 1 million of the 2.3 million incarnated population in the US. In addition, they only make up 13 percent of the US population. The remnants of segregation and Jim Crow laws led to the ghettoization African American. Therefore, this meant African American didn’t not have the quality of resources that white kids might have had. A white student might have been more privileged since they probably had better schools that let them get a quality education. School in African American communities probably were in worse shape and didn’t receive the necessary funding compared to schools in more affluent communities. This only kept them in a cycle of poverty and made it much harder for them to succeed. There definitely a stark difference in how people are treated in the justice system based on their race. In addition, people of non-white races have to deal with many of stereotypes

In the United States, the wealth gap between the rich and the poor is one the highest it’s ever been. If you are poor, you are disadvantaged in numerous ways since you don’t have access to the resources you need. For example, if you are poor it would be much harder for to get a college education and get a good paying. Numerous studied have proved that only about 3 percent of the student in Americas top colleges belong to low economic standing. I heard a story on the news about single mom with two kids who was trying to get an education but didn’t have time because she had to work 40 hours in a week to put food on the table for her family. People in these similar situations, remain stagnant in that economy status because of the difficulty to get an education. In addition, being poor has other ramification such as not having access to healthcare, having bad credit, not being able to buy your own home. If you were rich you could afford healthcare and get a quality education that would lead to better