Justice, humanity, and prudence
In this 21st centaury the disparity between Rich and Poor is increasing
rapidly all around the world. The rapid industrialization along with Capitalism has
to be credited for this disparity. The Governments policy backed by Justice,
Humanity and Prudence should be formulated so as to decrease this disparity.
Justice
The eradication of world-wide extreme poverty is regarded as being a
matter of global justice. Pogge, an influential theorist states that extreme poverty is
primarily a consequence of a biased trading system and abuses of power, economic
and military, that skew the global economic system to the advantage of the better-
off and causing disadvantage to poor. The institutions of international and domestic
trade are controlled by the rich for their own benefit in a way that is
disproportional and therefore unfair. He states that poverty is the result of human
institutions and collective choices therefore we should not, think of our individual
donations and initiatives as helping the poor, but as protecting them from the
effects of global rules whose injustice benefits the rich and it’s their responsibility.
He states that there is morally difference between harming and not preventing
harm, between killing and letting die and so those persons who benefitted and
benefitting by these institutions should rectify the harm they have caused by
redistributing the resources to a situation that would have been the outcome of
fair trade, fair politics, and fair educational opportunities. He states this
rectification is their Duty.
He states that there are also disadvantages by associating poverty relief and
remedial justice as all extreme poverty need not be laid at the door of
exploitation or unfairness.
Humanity
Global poverty is seen as an intolerable situation experienced by those who
are poor rather than as an injustice arising out of the actions of the better-off.
Poverty is morally unacceptable directly because of the suffering that it
involves. It is the experiences of those in extreme poverty that founds the
