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Babies: The Answer to Unsustainable Welfare |
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Written by Jansen Gunther
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Two hundred years ago, Thomas Malthus predicted the inevitability of social catastrophe. He argued that the exponential rate of population growth would eventually outstrip the mere arithmetic growth of food supplies, leaving the world in a visceral struggle for limited food resources. Luckily, advancements in technology enabled the food supply to keep pace with population growth and, consequently, Europe didn’t fall into apocalyptic chaos.
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Pitfalls of Political Paternalism |
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Written by Nathan Jack
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“We are our brother’s keeper!” With this battle cry, Democrats resolved to provide health care for all Americans. It is our responsibility to help other people, so Congressional Democrats saw it fit to turn responsibility into law, declaring it mandatory that all individuals buy health insurance. Because the recent health care legislation was enacted on the basis of a moral obligation, it exemplifies paternalism and destroys the morality it was intended to uphold by ignoring two aspects of morality: conscience and choice.
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Written by Sara Dorsey
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The increasing frequency and violence of natural disasters and conflicts has contributed to two trends: an increase in donations to aid organizations and greater sophistication in corporations that want to take advantage of disasters.
To some corporations, recently devastated areas represent new markets. Infant formula producers have excelled at turning disasters into opportunities to enter markets. The problem starts even before the disaster strikes. Producers market formula to the poor as a means of improving the quality of children’s lives.
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Our Stewardship: BYU and the Third World |
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Written by Dr. Warner Woodworth
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We live in a fallen world. Whether speaking spiritually, politically, or economically, the sad truth is that families in many nations are impoverished, suffer poor health, lack quality education, have corrupt governments, survive in conditions of ecological and environmental difficulty, and die far too early. The same may be said of the growing majority of Latter-day Saints. Indeed, we’re becoming a Third-World Church in which many families are broken, jobless, and in numerous cases are unable to afford the price of a bus ride to Sunday meetings.
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Aid Transparency in Haiti |
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Written by Zach Christensen & Dustin Homer
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Haiti has more charitable organizations per capita than any country besides India. It also receives an average of $230 per person every year in foreign aid. Yet it remains a desperately poor nation with an ineffective and corrupt government. Why hasn’t all of this international humanitarian attention done any good? Though there are certainly many reasons, a great deal of the problem lies in the practices of aid organizations.
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