Garrett Hardin Lifeboat Ethics Summary

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In “Lifeboat Ethics" by Garrett Hardin, I disagree with a section of his essay stating, "How can we shut the doors now? We have many friends and relatives in Japan that we'd like to bring here some day so that they can enjoy Hawaii too." The Japanese-American speaker smiled sympathetically and answered: "Yes, but we have children now, and someday we'll have grandchildren too. We can bring more people here from Japan only by giving away some of the land that we hope to pass on to our grandchildren someday. What right do we have to do that?”
I believe that other people should be allowed to go and visit hawaii and have all the great experiences that the people who live there have.


Hardin's essay also consisted of many people against the idea of closing the doors to visitors in hawaii. There were many examples beginning with a person in a meeting about the subject. "How can we shut the doors now? We have many friends and relatives in Japan that we'd like to bring here some day so that they can enjoy Hawaii too." The person giving the speech was also japanese and he concluded that they couldn't allow anymore people because the space was limited. A lot of residents already have children, and then they will have grandchildren and so on. Therefore bringing more people to the …show more content…

This example was of something he believed he thought a U.S. liberal would have said. “At this point, I can hear U.S. liberals asking: "How can you justify slamming the door once you're inside? You say that immigrants should be kept out. But aren't we all immigrants, or the descendants of immigrants?” What he is trying to say is, how can you not let immigrants stay while you all get to stay. It also explains how they don't want to let anymore immigrants in, although they are also immigrants or come from a family of immigrants. I agree with this statement because everyone and anyone no matter from where should have an opportunity to

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