After a devistating hurricane, hotel prices usually sky rocket. The hurricane did not affect the industry at all, importation was not slowed down, the rooms and everything they already needed were there. But with morer people in need of rooms, the more they would be willing to pay. In the book "Justice", the author talks about the morality of doing such a thing. This is not okay. The time people should be helping eachother out the most, They take advantage and make their situation worse. People are always acting upon their own self-intrest. The hotel owner wasn't thinking about how much he could help or hurt the victims by changing the pricing, but rather "how can I get the most money to buy the most things?" and he arrives at the conclusion of raising hotel room prices. This is not okay, This is inhumane.
"If I was the hunter, I would have shoot the monkey so that it would no longer have the chance to put other hunters in the same prediciment." Beah thought that what happened to him was so terrible for himself and everyone around him, that he would rather suffer all of it if it meant no one else would be a child soldier again. Most humans, given that they think something is immoral, would rather not go through it themselves, but don't think it is that bad for other humans to go through. Ishmael's situation was so disgustingly awful that he thought of no justifiable way to let people live like that. While, in reality there wasn't much he could do to stop it, he knew he needed to do everything he could to prevent this from happening forever. He had to do his best to "shoot the monkey". So he wrote a book and talks on shows and is doing everything he can to spread the horror and force people to think about this and get people educated about it and spark that light in powerful countries where something can be done. It is now our job as educated students in a powerful and free country, to do what he couldn't and change this world.
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