Tuesday, August 16, 2011
Live Free and Starve vs. The Singer Solution to World Poverty
The author of Live Free believes that the children who are forced into child labor would actuall be in a worse position if they were free. The author of Singer Solution believes we should stop upgrading and buying useless things and donate money to the poor. I probably have a reader's bias towards the second article because I feel very strongly towards children and their rights. However I don't agree with either of the articles completely I disagree that we shouldn't fight child labor with the first article but feel that you don't have to just give any extra money you have away. Against the first article I have a statement it makes: "[the government's of the countries that need child labor banned], mired in countless other problems seem incapable of bringing [food, clothing, and medication] to them." It seems to me that these nations need to step up and do something about this. I disagree with the idea proposed in the other document that there is no "distinction between a Brazilian who sells a homeless child to organ peddlers and an American who already has a TV and upgrades to a better one." I feel this is a silly question because obviously selling people is different than buying a inanimate object like a TV. I support neither of these arguments and feel that anyone who supports either is quite silly.
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