Complete 2 page APA formatted essay: Garret Hardin Lifeboat Ethics: The case against helping people.He proposes his hypothesis in quite a persuasive manner to increase the involvement of his audience.

Complete 2 page APA formatted essay: Garret Hardin Lifeboat Ethics: The case against helping people.

He proposes his hypothesis in quite a persuasive manner to increase the involvement of his audience. In his work he tries to prove that by not helping the poor, wealthy nations will be doing a correct task and will end up helping the poor nations. To support his opinion he gives an example of a life boat consisting of 50 individuals and still has space for another 10 individuals while there are hundreds other in the sea asking for helping and wanting to be saved by the life boat.

Hardin states that it is impossible for the life boat and the people who have the life boat to save all of them. The people who are already within the life boat represent those individuals who represent the wealthy nations and those asking for help represent people from poor nations. During the initial stages of his written work, one might perceive that Hardin is being unethical and selfish, but as a reader proceeds, he/she may realize that his opinion may only be the way to save the depleting resources of the earth. Later in his work he states that if all of the individuals who are asking for assistance are added to the lifeboat, the boat will sink. Similarly if wealthy nations start helping all poor nations, the wealthy nations will loose their resources and they will drown along with the poor nations. He further states that the selection of 10 people out of the pool of 100 for help is impossible. He believes that the boat should only hold 50 people for safety purposes. He compares this condition to the condition of the poor. he states that it is very hard for wealthy nations to determine who to help and who not to help so nations should opt for not helping at all. Secondly, he believes that nations should not share its abundant resources with the 10 selected poor countries because the wealthy nation may experience situations when they might be in trouble and the surplus resources may help them during such sessions. Hardin may be wrong in believing that by helping the poor