Much Ado About Nothing

Global responsibility, what does that mean? Do we have a global responsibility? In my opinion, global responsibility is something each country should have, to the other countries in the world. I think the world is a lot more connected than it was a few years ago. For example China and the
United States, we have an economic partnership that is so strong, neither country could continue on with their current way of life if it was broken. We are joined at the hip, and neither can make a move without the other either approving or stopping it. The bond with China is a big road block in the way of the U.S helping in
Darfur.
China gets cheap oil because of the conflict and doesn’t want the conflict to end, so they block us trying to stop the conflict. That is the bad side to being connected, now for the good. If countries are in trouble, or the quality of life isn’t good, then countries will try to help because of their global responsibility to them.Global responsibility can mean as many things as there are people on this planet. What I mean y global responsibility is being compelled by one’s own conscience to improve the quality of life for people that don’t have the same opportunities as we do. For example, most people in the
United States go to college, and learn. If you’re school is being bombed, like in Darfur, you wouldn’t have the opportunity to learn, no matter how bright, intelligent or willing you are. We should each be compelled by our own conscience to stop the bombing and give people an opportunity to learn. Part of having a global responsibility is taking care of us and our own country. If countries that have the means to help go bankrupt trying to help lots of people, nobody will be helped. We should only help as much as we can without damaging ourselves. I say this not to be mean, but as a word of caution for going overboard, especially at a national level. If we really help more than we can sustain, then nobody would be helped. What I mean when I say as much as we are able, is having enough money to take care of the basic needs of our own country, I believe that making sacrifices to help other countries is a thing we could do without damage to ourselves.  One place I think we have an enormous global responsibility to is in Sudan,
Darfur, Sudan to be more precise. Here people are getting killed and removed from their homes and are so afraid, that doing things they normally do, like cooking, farming, or going to school is impossible. The violence is forcing them to flee the deadly daily exchange of hostility between the government (who deploy the janjaweed) and the rebel groups. The civilians have to go to neighboring
Chad or rebel strongholds, where the day to day living is only marginally better. They don’t have enough food or water, they don’t have medical care. They don’t even have security as the violence has been spreading to and over the border with
Chad. Oil is what originally started the conflict back in 2003.The rebel groups wanted some of the revenue from the oil. It also should be affecting us by making us want to help. We should try to imagine that this is happening in our own countries, and see what we would do and try to do that. In conclusion, there is a lot of violence in
Darfur. The people there, and in refugee camps in neighboring
Chad live in despicable conditions. They don’t have the same opportunities as we do. The world is more connected to each other than it used to be. Because we are so connected we really have no choice but to help when other countries are in trouble.