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And get downvoted when asking how it's ethical to allow a small fraction of people to own unlimited wealth when 25% of Americans don't have clean tap water. :3
by shrimp_emoji 8y ago
And get downvoted when asking how it's ethical to allow a small fraction of people to own unlimited wealth when 25% of Americans don't have clean tap water. :3
- rak00n 8y agoIt's actually 63 million people, roughly 20%. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2017/08/14/63-million-americans-exposed-unsafe-drinking-water/564278001/ https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2017/08/14/63-million-am...
- xyzzyz 8y agoAs many as 63 million people — nearly a fifth of the United States — from rural central California to the boroughs of New York City, were exposed to potentially unsafe water more than once during the past decade, according to a News21 investigation of 680,000 water quality and monitoring violations from the Environmental Protection Agency. I'd say that "exposed to potentially unsafe water more than once during the past decade" is pretty far from "20% of Americans don't have clean tap water". If anything, I'd rather say it's impressive that 80% of Americans haven't been exposed to potentially unsafe water more than once in a decade!
- thwiv 8y agoWhere did you get that statistic?
- pawelmurias 8y agoDiscussion about ethics are kind of pointless as different people have different ethical systems.
- aabeshou 8y agoI dont think unnecessary inequality of food and water are very controversial in humane ethical systems, unless you want to include fascism in your debate