It is impossible to help everyone, it is not fair to help one person in relation to others in need, and it is also impossible not to help at all. What to do?

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  1. Australian philosopher Peter Singer, especially for those who have a similar question, came up with the concept of “effective altruism”, which about ten years ago gave rise to the movement of the same name. An effective altruist is a person who tries to reduce the amount of pain and suffering in the world, but tries to do it as efficiently as possible, relying on statistics and scientific data, focusing on such coefficients as “number of lives saved for a dollar”, “years of life adjusted for working capacity”, reports of the World Health Organization, etc.

    Singer suggests that everyone spend 10% of their income on charity. At the same time, effective altruists organize special companies to evaluate the effectiveness and transparency of charitable initiatives, such as GiveWell. These companies help make sure that the money spent on charity is spent as intended.

    You can read more about Singer's concept in the book The Most Good You Can Do: How Effective Altruism is Changing Ideas About Living Ethically or on the website� http://www.effectivealtruism.org

  2. Kindergarten and not reasoning. In Buddhist practice, there are several ways to live your life properly and get closer to the Buddha. 1) Help yourself and live a righteous life (Small way) 2) Helping the whole world, making it a better place and saving others to save yourself(The big way). If you help one or two, the world will be a better place. And the point is not that you helped one and left the other out but that by helping at least one you make the world a better place.

  3. Honestly, honestly. Help those who come your way. If you still have extra strength , go look for someone else to help. No, not really. Do what you can, not with us. The Lord will not accuse you of injustice for this. And his opinion is the only opinion that really matters (if you're an atheist, replace ” god “with ” universe”).

  4. It depends on how many people are willing to work. The more he works, the more people he can help. On this topic, there is a good movie ” Pay another (Pay It Forward)”. The idea is that help does not disappear in the universe, but becomes the cause of other help and further along the branching chain. Therefore, everyone deserves help, but parasitic people who are not ready to help others must first be taught to help, because this will be the best help for them.

    1. Don't help at all-you can. I will even say more, a part of the entire population of the earth does not help anyone, and the majority of those who inhabit the earth help only a fairly narrow circle of people: family, relatives and friends. I'm not saying that not helping others is a good thing, but this behavior is quite possible.
    2. It is better not to use the word “honest”to help. Because the most honest approach is “let them help themselves”. To clarify, this approach is both fair and inhumane at the same time.�
    3. It's best to help those you love. Then all philosophical and ethical problems disappear as such. However, you can help just like that, if you want 🙂

  6. Choose from all the people in need that you could help, the most (most) needy and help them in descending order of need. It would be fair to those who needed less.

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