School Lunches for World Hunger - White trays with five individual-sized compartments, filled with whatever mystery meat, or previously defrosted side dishes, has arrived from the truck that month, accompanied by a carton of milk; where in most cases chocolate milk, which means the sugar content is higher. For a shocking number of children in the public school system, this is perhaps the only meal of the day. When it comes to world hunger, you don't need to look at ads from a distant place for malnourished children with large abdomens, you just need to look down to see the future of America, which is wasting away. How do you fight a subset of a nation's population, and especially a population without political voice or ownership? Child poverty is an issue best addressed with moral justifications and analyzes in Amartya Sen's article "Property and Hunger" and undermines ethics in "The Ethics of Lifeboats: The Case Against Helping the Poor" by Garrett Hardin. In Hardin's article several controversies are raised about giving any assistance to poorer nations, and he has no qualms about inadvertently starving entire groups of people who do not succumb to population control. His justifications for such inaction are an all-or-nothing mentality that is inspired by the inequalities present in man; he calls it the tragedy of the commons; the example given is that a pasture shared by a herder can survive if everyone willingly and willingly refrains from overusing it, but one rotten apple is all it takes to poison the well and leave the pasture barren. This logic relates to Plato's Myth of Gyges, a story that tells the story of a king who only rose to power because he was granted the power of anonymity; committed atrocities because, as Glaucon says "...all men believe in their hearts that injustice is much more advantageous for the individual than justice...", and in this way the shepherd will always manage to separate himself from the pack to move forward. While in applied ethics the darkness of humanity should always be taken into account, in application to children an inert internal support is lacking. So much so that it's disgusting to think that Hardin wouldn't support a government-funded public school free lunch program because there are profiteers around every corner ready to take advantage, when ultimately it feeds the poorest of the poor, those who don't are able to grasp or change their current situation, children. Sen on the other hand supports the institutionalization of the moral right not to suffer from hunger and highlights that not being hungry also implies not being malnourished.