Tuesday, July 9, 2013

Poor

My point of putting up medicine and education as examples is: There are aspects of life that could be treated as invaluable virtue or commodities for sale. It is the decision of a society.

In this situation, the voice of Michael Sandel is clear: We should not think about money in many of these circumstances. We could live a better society if we do not value money that much and focus on social responsibility and spiritual needs.

On this, I have hesitation to agree.

Yes, the world would become too materialistic if everything is valued by money. However, if every person forget about what their country can do for them and simply ask what they can do for the country, they may fall to the hands of another Hitler rather than Kennedy.

Similarly, although many people from that strong nation are so poor that the only thing they have is money, don't we consider there has been an improvement since 1976?

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