Poverty

Peter Singer crafted a scenario that you had to sacrificed $200 shoes to save a child’s life. Then we do equally wrong not to save the children dying in Africa.

Garrett Hardin offered the lifeboat analogy, thus throwing resources to the country in poverty will reduce the chance for the lives in the wealthy country to thrive. The problem was caused by overpopulation, the most compassionate response is to do nothing.

The counter argument was Hardin fell into the either/or fallacy. There are abundant resource, just distributed extremely unevenly.

Morality calls for us not to draw arbitrary lines when it comes to who deserves help and who doesn’t.