Individuals have a moral obligation to help someone in need

This is for serious people only if not serious i will report abuse on all of your posts comments and arguemnets.Okey this is just my aff case to refute my case or an arguement just put "agianst busby123 post #" “In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, but the worst thing you can do is nothing.” This quote was from Theodore Roosevelt. What Roosevelt is saying is that Regardless of whether or not you do something right or wrong at least you have tried to do it. It is wrong to just leave and not consider something. In this situation, we must assist people in need regardless of whether or not it does much help because we have done all we can possibly do with the best of our abilities. Leaving a person without even trying does not help anyone and is wrong. Because I agree with this statement made by Theodore Roosevelt, I am forced to affirm the resolution. Resolved: Individuals have a moral obligation to assist people in need. To make further clarifications I will define the terms: Individual, Moral Obligation, Assist, and Need. Individual: of, relating to, characteristic of, or meant for a single person or thing. Moral Obligation: an obligation arising out of considerations. Assist: to give aid or help if able to. Need: a lack of something wanted or deemed necessary These definitions are from the World English Dictionary or Princeton University Dictionary. My Value for this debate is duty, which is a moral obligation. We have a moral obligation to assist people in need. We cannot just leave these people to be un-helped. Like Theodore Roosevelt said, the worst possible thing you could do is nothing. We have a moral obligation to at least do something to help our fellow human beings. We cannot always be thinking about ourselves in that we would only benefit ourselves and not anyone else. Duty makes sure that the actions that anyone makes as a citizen helps to understand the circumstances in which another person may be in so that help can be provided in any way, shape or form. To achieve this value I provide the Criterion of Progress. We are human beings that are living in modern times. We no longer live barbarically only to please and comfort ourselves. We must be willing to give even a little bit of help to the people around us because when all is but gone and all possessions are lost, all we have is people to look after us too. CONTETNION 1 Humans can be classified as selfish beings. We need to stop this generalization by making sure that people will believe that they ought to act for the good of others without expecting anything good on return. The belief that you should help others without expecting anything in return is called altruism. As individuals we are aware that there are people around us all over the world, we must understand that even a little bit of help could go well with anyone. Help does not mean there has to be an extreme amount of help that could put the person in danger or make them in need. Help could be as simple as a single word or small action. We should help others without expecting anything in return. In the world we live in today, we have so much access to the people around us and it is almost nearly impossible to say that you have never met anyone else in this world. We must be willing to help others. There may be a time in the world where you will be the one in need of help, and the people who live around you will be there to help you. CONTENTION 2 There are many ways to help people. Assisting someone does not mean that you will e put yourself in physical or financial danger. It merely means that you are just providing help or giving aid. Help can be of great effort or little effort, what matters is that you are at least helping, even if you are not successful, you are still tried to help. Giving assistance does not necessarily have to be doing the exact thing that needs to be done. Giving assistance or help could be as simple as a small gesture of kindness by saying something comforting or trying to at least do something. Help could also come in the form of telling the person that you are unable to help. Although it is one of the least forms of help, it still lets the person understand that you are unable to help them at that time and you will get someone who can like police fire department family friend est. This is much better than just leaving the person and deliberately ignoring them. If you ignore them this could bring forth bad emotions towards you. Helping someone and giving assistance is the least we can do for other people around us that we obviously know are around us. There are many ways for something to be achieved. You cannot think that a certain individual can only do a certain deed to assist someone in only one specific manner. You could get a friend to help, or you could call for someone to help the person in need. Assisting someone in need does not necessarily mean that you directly have to be the one helping the person. CONTENTION 3 Assistance does not mean that you are doing all the work in a situation where someone is in need. Assistance means to give aid, which means that the person in need should have a degree of ability to do or get what they need partially. People cannot always be expected to do everything in the entire world and help all people who are completely unable to do anything and need many different things. It is ridiculous to think that one individual could achieve such an act. There are many people around us in this world and will also be able to provide assistance. We are progressed beings that must depend on each other to live because that is all we really have. If we were to lose the people around us, the world we be a scary place. We live to be able to help others and others live to be able to help us. It is our absolute duty to make sure that we can even do a little bit of help for people because sitting and not doing anything is wrong.