As we enter the millennium, the gap between rich and poor has never been wider. While some people have more money than it is possible to spend in a lifetime, no matter how lavishly they might make purchases; others are not able to provide even for their most basic needs. On all the continents of the world, people starve to death for lack of food; freeze death for lack of shelter, die of diseases that …showed first 75 words of 598 total…

…showed last 75 words of 598 total…people are passively violating a primary moral principle. It is a moral responsibility of the rich to help the poor. In conclusion, affluent people should give a certain percentage of their wealth to help do away with absolute poverty in the world, because people are not only living beings who have a right to healthy lives, but because it is wrong to allow people to die when helping them live is well within your means.