Is saving a poor person worth it?

In some African nation a boy is dying of some curable disease. So money is a sent to the boy to cure the disease and he gets cured. Now the boy is starving and thirsty. So money is sent sent to feed him. Now the boy needs education to be smart enough not to join a rebellion. So money is sent to him for education. So in sum it up the kid gets free health care, food, and education. But in the end is it all worth it? Because the kid environment is bad and will likely have little success. So in the end is saving a poor person worth it?|||Anyway you look at it being poor sucks, this is universally true amongst the poor everywhere in the world but I'd say it were probably especially true of those living in unstable or 'poor' countries where the poverty and the environment people find themselves in is hostile and dangerous.





If you have the means, and the inclination to help at least one person in such a situation and you are reasonably sure that it will help in some way then it would seem to me one is almost duty bound to render assistance. The fact that simply throwing money at poverty does not fix it is sad but has been shown again and again to be tragically; true. However, we're talking systemically, individually both you and the individual you help, your input improves at least one aspect of life for at least one person. If you're help is of little overall benefit when all the complicated issues of poverty are taken into account, you shouldn't reconsider offering this help, it may not help much, but it's better than nothing.





Poverty is horrible, and even if it turns out that at the end of the day the impact of the financial help one provides as an individual is minimal, anything that can make poverty just that tiny bit less awful has got to be money well spent. If you have the means and inclination, do it.|||saving a life is always worth it.|||It would certainly be worth it if you, in fact, were the poor kid.|||i ask my self the same question... and i think that they should buckle up and work on their own problems...|||if one person suffers we all suffer





we're all connected|||In that line of thinking, it would be cheaper to drop one bomb and wipe out several thousand of them all at once.





And while we're at it, why not get rid of all the crippled, the elderly, the sick, and the poor in our own country?





With your kind of thinking, after a while, you'd be the only one left.





I feel sorry for you, man.|||Most of the diseases that kill people in African countries can be cheaply prevented with vaccines shots that are common place in modern industrialized countries. Saving a life, no matter how poor they are, is always worth it. Self-worth, to me, is not measured by how much money you own. As for the other possible scenarios you stated, they are grossly inaccurate and you apparently haven't put much thought into it.|||What would you say if I told you that you're going to die one day, so what's the point in trying to postpone it?