Trying To Save The Poor People In A Lifeboat

No matter how you look at the nature of human beings, if you are in a lifeboat and there are other people in the water that could drown, you are going to try to save them. What if it was you in the water, gasping for air, swallowing water every few seconds, slowly sinking more and more into the dark blue cold water. Using a lifeboat as a metaphor for an example of trying to save poor people is a horrible way to describe it in my opinion. It's different from going to another country and seeing villages of poor people. Usually they can help themselves somewhat or they wouldn't be alive. If you are talking about a lifeboat, and you do not get them in the boat, they are going to drown. Americans should eliminate the thoughts of not helping the poor people. Garret Hardin states that people outside the

The author states you have fifty people in a lifeboat with a sixty-person capacity. He debates whether to invite ten more on the boat or just save the fifty they have and not risk the other ten. Hardin talks about if he brings more people on the lifeboat it could cause overpopulation and maybe even new diseases in the world. If we had to pick ten more people to take on the boat, how would we pick them? Would it be "first come, first serve" or would you pick the best candidates? If you are talking about saving poor people's lives and not a lifeboat for a metaphor, I would choose the ten people who needed the most help. If you are talking about an actual lifeboat, you should save as many as you can. You don't have to get them all inside. Look at the story of the Titanic, the lifeboats had ropes along the side of the lifeboats that people, who couldn't fit inside the boat, could hang on instead of just trying to swim around and avoid certain death. You definitely can't save all the poor people in the world all at