Why should the poor be helped?Why cant it be " Survival for the fittest"?

Question

And is it really helpful at times when you put a fraction of money into a begger's bowl?

Dont you people think providing FREE EDUCATION will be the best help rather than money?

Instead of wishing the rich's money to go to the poor, why should'nt we make the poor rich, keeping the rich rich?

Answer 1

I think some guy in Germany in the 1930's decided survival of the fittest was the thing to do.

Answer 2

Oh well. You seem to have the understanding, & compassion of a brain dead newt, so I shouldn't even bother, but I will. "Survival OF[not "for"] the fittest" is a thing of the past that you probably wouldn't understand. Nor, are you aware that many parents who BOTH work full time are still unable to afford rent, food, medical insurance & so on. A common misconception is that poor people are just lazy & stupid, & if "given" any money will use it on booze & drugs. Some do! Any program, assistance, service can & will be abused. Many old folks have to choose between food or life saving medications, GREAT! If they don't die of starvation, they die from health problems, or, of the outrageous stress of just trying to survive. I really love the way you put: "..money into a beggar's bowl.." Your distain gives me chills. The homeless & poor are a problem that already exists, "free education" isn't going to solve it. I truly laughed at your last line. I mean, it's so REALISTIC! Make the poor rich & keep the rich rich. Lovely! Let's all just be rich! Whoopee! Answered your own question. Maybe you can run for president next time.

Answer 3

By " the poor " do you mean those people who don't have basic requirement of life or the means to secure them: or, as in sociology the poor class is defined as "the lower 20% income of the group"? The first meaning every crumb you waste could be the one buys that person the time to find a open door. In the second in some neighborhoods it means being inconvenienced by not having a second car in the family and someone needs a ride home from school. In a class I had for first responders someone shared the story of entering a chemical tank in full protective clothing and first turning over one person who didn't have a prayer to survive before carrying the only person still moving out . . . after all the human response is to let others at lest have a prayer of a chance.

Answer 4

Do you really, really believe in "Survival for the fittest"?
If you think that everybody will take extreme poverty meekly, you're wrong!
In the past, people ate their own children when cities were under siege; I am sure some of the parents that did that might prefer a neighbor to their own child! Don't you?

So if you think the answer to the poor is to ignore them, welcome to chaos and mayhem--let the free for all begin!

One thing is to give help to those that are too lazy to get off their butt. However, most people like to work. Many cannot find work that will sustain them.

I just heard that in Los Angeles, an RV trailer park is raising its rent from $1000 to $2000 a month! For parking a vehicle! Insanity! How are low salary people going to live anywhere under such circumstances?

Let's all join the insane, buy guns, kill our neighbors and eat them!

Or do you prefer the way of love that Christ taught? Let those who have help those that do not!

Answer 5

Because unlike you, most humans have both brains and hearts.

Fittest? The thieves who own nearly everything are "fit" in having no conscience, and being utterly short-sighted, heartless, and greedy.

Why should they be the only people allowed to live -- the very worst among us?

How many children's brains have been stunted by malnourishment -- children that could have grown up to contribute productively, even brilliantly, to society, had they been properly fed and educated?

So, you would have the old, and the insane starve to death in the streets, would you?

And all the vets who lost health and sanity fighting the rich guys' wars.

Just let them die, huh?

As I say, HUMANS aren't like that.

"Survival of the fittest" is an expression from evolutionary biology that refers to fitness in terms of the being's immediate environment.

Given that our environment is itself "sick" and promotes the sub-human and worthless over any genuine values, the "fit" in that environment are the least human, those who contribute the least, and do the most harm.

And these sorry excuses are what you admire and aspire to. Lacking both brain and heart, I'd say you're well on your way.

Answer 6

For crying out loud!! The survival of the fittest is applied to the whole of the species. The whole species of mastodons died because they were not fit as a whole to survive. Saber tooth tigers died off because they could not beat back the aboriginal people of ten thousand years ago.(did you think they were dinosaurs?) The neanderthals died off because they did not hold the capacity to protect and fend for their peers and communities.
The human race is the fittest because we have the ability to work for the ones who cannot or will not. The poor have always been with us and they will always be with us. We ....that's you and I as well as our peers have an obligation to help as much or as little as we can. The human race survives because we will die for each other. We will do it conscious of the consequences. A musk ox will not! The human race is the fittest to survive because we have an intelligent wisdom about us when it come to our offspring and those of others.
Yes you bet it helps to put a fraction of money into a beggar's bowl.....it is part of the human survival.

Answer 7

It doesn't have anything to do with "survival of the fittest" when a company downsizes and there's no work in your field.

I have a friend who instead of money in a "beggar's bowl" gives them certificates for meals at local restaurants. She doesn't need to judge, as you apparently do.

People end up on the skids for a lot of reason, and a society without the compassion to try to help lift them up isn't much of a society at all.

Have you checked out the gaps in America between the rich and the poor? We're losing our middle class, and the gap between the very very rich and the rest of us is widening. To them, we're all poor.

Answer 8

We can never make the poor rich and rich stay rich, because we live in a capitailist society and by definition there has to rich and poor people.

P.s rich and poor are relative definitions, some of the people whom have least money and sometime the richest people alive but in different way.

Answer 9

I am of 2 minds on this

A. A society can only be considered as "good" as the care it takes of it's most downtrodden. Imagine visiting some beautiful city like Hong Kong and seeing LOTS of homeless people in the subways, streets, and all over b/c they decided to not help them one bit. Wouldn't you notice that and wonder what was going on?

B. All life is meaningless, so the poor and the rich are completely irrelevant.

B only works if, like me, you are a nihilist. If you consider yourself a religious or moral person, I say you have to go with A.

Answer 10

If you wanted to be a social evolutionist, restricting capital to a few fortunate individuals is an obvious error, when a society which distributes wealth, with better overall living conditions (albeit less yachts and Porche collections) has a bigger and better cultural gene pool to generate new cultural adaptations. A society of dominance by the 1% cannot compete. and so who's the fittest? In nature it's the creature that reproduces the most. But sexual selection is different from natural selection. If you think the elk with the 10-foot rack is the "fittest" -- even though he reproduces the most in his niche-- you're sadly mistaken.

Answer 11

At least in cities in the US, the poor are often the survivors of calamity - I would say many of the "fittest" are among the poor. One reason I think they should be helped - a reason that has nothing to do with my morality or desire for charity - is to enable the fittest to be among those of us who are better off but no longer have survival instincts. Also, many are poor simply because they have dependents. There is nothing "wrong" with them. We should desire to enable their children because all of us ultimately depend on children from all walks of life who will do the work to take care of elders and pay taxes to keep everything functioning.