Testing something out.
Posted: Sun Mar 09, 2008 4:53 pm
My ethics teachers uses a message board for written work (on the net and everybody can see it). So, I'm wondering whether this is too... well that's exactly it; is it too extreme?
Question: what do you think causes social injustice? (subtopics are consumerism and other related stuff)
Question: what do you think causes social injustice? (subtopics are consumerism and other related stuff)
I don't think that one single human being can even start to comprehend what the thousands of factors to the problem are. I simply, ironically, don't think the problem is that simple. I see what consumerism is about and yes, that's a great way to point out Western flaws but its nowhere near the answer to the question of why a kid in Africa isn't going to be fed tonight. Sure, you can blame capitalism for most things in society, and its also true that many capitalists are also greedy, but that really doesn't quiet sum it up in my opinion. An injustice to me is that the fact that while many of the kids of the world are either starving or could care less if they had a phone rather just a friend many of the people in western cultures are complaining one minute how they'll have to wait a full day for an iPod to arrive and then the next minute start complaining about famine and how people are too greedy to give kids food. If we stopped blaming people for one second, maybe we'd get something constructive done, but the fact that we complain about factors we cannot stop (and to the wrong people) doesn't bode too well for the people we intend to help. We are so obssessed about blaming others for not following the rules that we tend to forget our real goal or at least the people that the rules are meant to protect.