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Poverty Tourism
Benefits that the poor might gain from poverty tourism is that their situation becomes more understood and thus the possibility for change becomes real. If no one is paying any attention to them (i.e., no poverty tourism) then there is less exposure in the public's eye. Thus, impoverished nations gain the fruits of awareness. They gain the tourism of wealthier individuals and can benefit economically from that perspective. So in one sense, this practice could be seen as exploitive but in another sense, it is natural for one half of the world to want to see how the other half lives, and on a human level it is also natural to want to be noticed.
From the libertarian perspective, personal freedom should allow things like poverty tourism, if individuals choose to spend their time in such a manner. From the liberal perspective, it can seem an insensitive and immoral activity because the liberal views poverty as a sin almost, as something to be remedied not observed candidly and discussed openly. The liberal perspective is almost unnatural in the sense that it applies ethics in an unnatural way, viewing the exposure of class differences as something wrong and that needs to be fixed...
The liberal views politics as the arbiter of what is correct.
So while politics cannot fully eradicate poverty, it can allow individuals the liberty to observe it first hand and to see how one half of the world lives. Poverty tourism is not unethical or immoral but rather it is the individual who sees the poverty whose subsequent actions are to be judged as ethical or immoral. Poverty tourism can actually lead to more humane actions if what is seen inspires in the individual the feeling to want to help the poor.
The connection between ethics and morality is the individual, for it is in the person that ethics and morality meet in action. Poverty tourism itself is neither ethical or unethical, because it is a reality, a fact. Facts cannot be immoral. Actions, however, can be. If one engages in poverty tourism in order only to feel better about oneself, this may be judged unethical. But if one engages in poverty tourism to see and to understand the other half so as to see how one might help, this can be judged ethical and moral.
A public policy maker might keep this in mind when drafting policies regarding poverty tourism. Everyone is curious…
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