On a global and personal level there exists a notion that the general WE has a moral obligation to care about the injustice, scarcity, suffering in the world! How nice. Our mothers would be proud! Even the politicians’ mothers would be proud!
We dedicate our work and our money (whatever doesn’t really break our bank) to alleviate the suffering of many of those “less fortunate”. Nice after-school special set up…
A great number of power dynamics and political motivations get to hide under our good intentions, and for all the good that we do, good is also undone, something is taken, the price is paid. Unless, of course, the setting is politically/economically uninteresting and then it gets a lot less attention, money, “love.”
I think the ethical dilemma lays not in the question weather or not we need to help, the real question that requires clarifying is weather or not it’s ethical to discriminate against who gets that help.

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