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Why do humans collectively have an obligation to lift poor countries out of poverty?
by tekknik 6y ago
Why do humans collectively have an obligation to lift poor countries out of poverty?
- SomeoneFromCA 6y agoBecause the world without poverty is a better place.
- tekknik 6y agoYou’re just repeating sound bites. Why? explain in detail how this helps humans (especially since it goes against darwinism) and doesn’t hurt them.
- SomeoneFromCA 6y agoIf you are a social darwinist, I am not here to convert you.
- tekknik 6y agoThis seems like a bow out and still I have no answer, just an assumption. So once again, what benefit does humanity have for decreasing poverty instead of the country decreasing it themselves?
- SomeoneFromCA 6y agoI do not owe you answers, but I can continue a conversation if you pay me.
- danaris 6y agoHumanity's competitive advantage—the reason we survive, thrive, and outcompete every other species—is that we work together. We cooperate, to balance one person's weaknesses with another person's strengths. Social Darwinism is entirely based on misunderstandings of science and history. It is a dead-end philosophy, and needs to be eradicated with knowledge, replaced by the spreading of compassion and cooperation wherever it is found.
- tekknik 6y agoI agree with all of this, except I don’t see the value an impoverished set of humans can provide. They will have a point of few that is valid and valuable in certain contexts but are these useful? Secondly when the new baseline is removing poverty you remove the desire to become something more, which is where the real innovation comes from. So by not helping them we get better results, not worse. Also I would love some papers on how natural selection is no longer valid, this sounds like pure opinion.
- stunt 6y agoBecause the opposite is to go and exploit them as it happened for most of the human history and is still happening here and there. Some of those country are drawn in poverty as the result. Are you already tired of "helping" others? Don't forget that we aren't trying to cooperate for a very long time as it may seem to be. We aren't still great at doing it either. What may seem to be broken to you isn't wrong in essence. We should help each other. We should support each other. And less poverty is better for all of us. Maybe we should just do it differently. Perhaps the way we are doing it isn't good and we should find a better way to do it.