1. This essay starts by describing the initial encounter with Flavio and his family. Flavio is carrying water up a hill and they follow him to his house. EVerything that Flavio has falls well below the bare minimum. He uses a box to have the men sit on and the only other recognizable furniture is a sagging bed. Flavio is clearly poverty stricken. Flavio is clearly in a actegory of the poorest people on the planet. He uses a hole in the ground as a toilet and lives in a mud hut.
Only minutes away are the houses of the rich, large white buildings, very nicely furnished. But Flavio lives in extreme poverty, along with poverty comes violence. In Flavio's home there is no shortage of violence and fighting, but the other members of his family are so over exerted from being famished that they do not even react when 'normal' people would be worried. Living in poverty can make a person cold, when you are forced to deal with death and famine every day one gets used to it.
2. Paying women to take birth control is very unethical. It is an unalienable right for a woman to have as many children as she wants regardless of financial standing. It is a right granted to women by our constitution. Another reason that this is a bad idea is because it would take a greater amount of government funding than we are allocating toward poverty now. The women would not take the birth control unless the financial incentive was larger than what they can make off of welfare. Which would defeat the purpose of reallocating funds to pay for the birth control and also paying women to take it. I do believe that birth control should be free to those women who would like to use it, but I do not think that paying women to take birth control would ever work out for the better.
"How Do We Stop Poverty in the World, If It Is a Matter for the Government and Overpopulation? | All Best News." All Best News in the World. Web. 14 Apr. 2010.
I really like your opinion on the government paying for birth control, it seems like you put a lot of though into it and made some really good points. I agree that the government simply does not have enough money to add to the poverty funds to pay women to take birth control. Also, I found you statement that women would not take the birth control unless the incentive was larger than what they make off welfare, I didn't even think about this but it's an excellent point.
ReplyDeleteI really liked your responses, as well as the pictures. I like that you found a picture for both questions. Everybody else just found one for poverty. I also enjoyed your opinion in the second answer. One thing that never even crossed my mind is the right women have to bare children. Maybe some women want to have all these kids and they don't want to take birth control. It is their right to refuse it. I also agree that the pill should be free to these women but they should not be paid to use it. Maybe suggesting it wouldn't be such a bad idea. Letting them know that it is there if they would like to use it free of charge. Birth control also help fight other diseases and some forms of cancer, so it could also be good for their health. Great job over all.
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ReplyDeleteHey Ben, I like how you used multiple pictures in your post. I agree with you that women have unalienable rights to have children. However, the government giving an incentive to use birth control, doesn't necessarily take that right away, but rather gives more of an option for women in poverty. Also, how can you assume the women would not take birth control unless the financial incentive was greater than what they would receive from welfare? I'm sure some people would take advantage of such an incentive. Other than that, great post
I like both of the pictures that you chose to use. I agree that the women should receive the birth control free of charge but not paid to take it.
ReplyDeleteGood post. There are just a few grammatical and mechanical problems.
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