Claims: The planet’s resources can’t be distributed equally and therefore we have no obligation to try. Attempts to help the poor with their current situation will result in a future of ruin.
Hardin gives three reasons to support his claim....
1. Reasons: Giving to the hungry in poor nations perpetuates the cycle of hunger.
Grounds: Poor nations grow faster than rich nations and providing aid only helps to increase their population and thus their need for food.
2. Reason: Helping the poor will ultimately result in us overloading and destroying the environment.
Grounds: Assisting the impoverished people of India will only result in the population increasing and decreasing the amount of available resources and intern reducing the quality of life of Indians and accelerating the destruction of India's environment.
3. Reason: Allowing immigrants from poor countries expedites the world's fall into ruin.
Grounds: Under regulated immigration causes an over abundance of cheap labor, thus harming the job local market, and results in rich countries exhausting their finite resources quicker than they normally would.
Warrant: Spoiling resources and leading the world to ruin is not optimal for humanity's continued existence.
Qualifier: Hardin's conclusions may only be reached if current population growth forecasts hold.
Hardin gives three reasons to support his claim....
1. Reasons: Giving to the hungry in poor nations perpetuates the cycle of hunger.
Grounds: Poor nations grow faster than rich nations and providing aid only helps to increase their population and thus their need for food.
2. Reason: Helping the poor will ultimately result in us overloading and destroying the environment.
Grounds: Assisting the impoverished people of India will only result in the population increasing and decreasing the amount of available resources and intern reducing the quality of life of Indians and accelerating the destruction of India's environment.
3. Reason: Allowing immigrants from poor countries expedites the world's fall into ruin.
Grounds: Under regulated immigration causes an over abundance of cheap labor, thus harming the job local market, and results in rich countries exhausting their finite resources quicker than they normally would.
Warrant: Spoiling resources and leading the world to ruin is not optimal for humanity's continued existence.
Qualifier: Hardin's conclusions may only be reached if current population growth forecasts hold.
Backing: Things that are not optimal for humanity's continued existence should be avoided.