Garrett Hardin Lifeboat Ethics Summary

If there was a row boat of the capability of 5 people would let the rich people of one nation on the row boat and not the poor of another nation or only the poor? Would we let everyone in and let the boat sink or have a mix of people and leave people in water. In Garrett Hardin’s article “Lifeboat Ethics: The Case Against Helping the Poor”. Hardin’s that the world is becoming United States have become overpopulated and the politics have become lopsided.

The argument of Hardin through use of a life boat metaphor, is that we have lost our way in and our moral way. His claim “Spaceship Earth certainly has no captain; the United Nations is merely a toothless tiger, with little power to enforce any policy upon its bickering members” (Hardin). The metaphor of having the safety capacity of 50 people and how do you chose the extra people. He wants us to only care about our nation and not others. Hardin says that we should close our border to the poor nations. If we did this we would have a more stable nation, “Only rich countries have anything in the way of food reserves set aside, and even they do not have as much as they should. Poor countries have none” (Hardin) Hardin is stating that the richest nations should only get food while the poor counties fend for themselves. That the poor counties would end up diminishing to have a natural harsh way of population control. Without having what he calls a World Food bank where all the counties food reserve which is like a give and take for the in-need nations. Within this World Food bank, they nation has spent a lot of money on the reserves, “In the years 1960 to

The stated implications are that he thinks we have read his past articles to know what “Tragedy of Commons” is he gave a brief implication that is wordy and hard to follow. As well his knowledge of bioethics goes beyond a normal person’s knowledge it’s too niche and