Go to this website for valuable information http://www.worldometers.info/ (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. It is frightening to see how fast the numbers change. The most industrialized societies with free-market economies and educated populations significantly reduce starvation and poverty. 1. Do the most industrialized societies (such as the United States) have a moral obligation or responsibility to help alleviate the problem of starvation and poverty in the least industrialized societies? 2. If so, what should the U.S. be doing to reduce the problems of starvation and poverty in the world? On the one hand, the US may offer more humanitarian aid than any other industrialized nation to the less industrialized countries where disease, poverty, and starvation are rampant. But, we also sell weapons to some of those countries. Those weapons sometimes find their way into the hands of militants who perpetuate the country’s poverty. Why does the US do this? Because the sale of arms/weapons is very very lucrative. So we sell guns to a militant faction and send humanitarian aid to the poor people in the same country, never being sure the aid gets to the people who need it. There are often two sides to our “humanitarian” aid to less industrialized countries. Remember the 2004 Tsunami, the 2005 Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, and the 2012 Hurricane Sandy in the US northeast. Two questions to consider in thinking about this: (1) does it make sense to rebuild cities that experience these natural events after such devastation, continuing to overpopulate dangerous areas? (2) does our government (you and me, as taxpayers) have a moral obligation to help our own citizens before those in other countries? SO: 3. Since the US has to borrow money from China to pay for humanitarian aid – does it make sense that we send it to other countries? Regardless of your own position on this issue, try to convince me that we should. You will have to work very very hard to convince me that this makes sense. Give it your best shot.