End of Poverty: Human Nature

"This book, then, is about making the right choices-choices that can lead to a much safer world based on a true reverence and respect for human life." (page 2, End of Poverty)
I found this quote able to tie into something we keep browsing upon in class about Locke and Hobbes going back to human nature and their innate desires. In a perfect world, everyone is happy and can join hands, respect one another, and find faster solutions to making problems go away. However, that is not our world. The reality of it is that, again as I am stressing (and not trying to generalize, but give a spectrum of the reality of life) is not everyone has 'helping others' on their To Do List. Some are also trying to keep their heads above water in desperate times. Like I brought up in class, it's a tough decision to keep doing what you are doing to just barely keep your home, bills, gas or transportation money, and even family fed and then trying to get into the concentration on helping other countries. Like someone brought up in class, I feel it is necessary to help our own country first (like in the example, help your home first). Then again, this brings up the issue of helping our own country out and pausing or slowing down the aid of other developing countries will bring the country to ruins. So it's a really tough situation to have in everyone's case.