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From Famine, Affluence, and Morality

Continuous starvation, a cyclone, and a civil conflict have transformed at least nine

million people in East Bengal into impoverished refugees. Yet, the wealthier countries have the

potential to provide enough help to keep any additional misery to a minimum. Human choices

and deeds have the power to avert such pain.

The problem affects anyone with more money than they need to maintain themselves and

their dependents, or who is in a situation to initiate legislative activism. Almost every philosophy

instructor and student in Western colleges must fall into one of these groups. There are perhaps

some topics of public affairs and international policy in which a genuinely professional

evaluation of the circumstances is necessary before taking sides or reacting, but the subject of

hunger is unquestionably not one of them. The reality of pain is a phenomenon that cannot be

denied. It is also not in debate, in my opinion, that humanity can do something about it, whether

by traditional “famine relief” (Vaughn 832) techniques, family planning, or both. As a result, this

is a topic on which philosophers are qualified to comment. The generous guy may be lauded, but

the uncharitable man is not punished. Individuals do not feel uncomfortable or humiliated about

spending money on new clothing or a new automobile rather than donating it to hunger care. In

fact, they have not considered the possibility. This perspective on the situation is unjustifiable.

Humans are not supplying for any significant requirement when they buy new garments

not to keep themselves comfortable but to seem well-dressed. If they continued to wear their
existing clothing and donated the money to famine assistance, they would not be abandoning

anything major.
 Works cited

Vaughn, Lewis. Doing ethics: Moral reasoning and contemporary issues. WW Norton &

Company, 2015.