What is our moral obligation to the less fortunate?

What is society’s moral obligation to its citizens? Is it to enrich and enlighten or restrict and make use of them? What are the ethics of freedom? Is freedom an illusion in this country? If one man has more “freedom” than the next, who suffers?What does it mean to abide by the law? Are some people exempt from following the law? What if the people enforcing the laws are corrupt? What then? What recourse do people have if law enforcement and the politics of the day are stacked against them? How do we remedy the situation and bring back trust?How should society address the homeless situation? What is our moral obligation to the less fortunate? What does it mean to care and take care of the less fortunate? What about our society restricts and pressures us away from caring?How has the “establishment” kept people in their places? Have things changed at all in the last 50 years in that regard? How so? Whose voices are heard? Whose voices should be heard? Why and How?What ethical responsibility do we have to each other? Our family? Our environment? Are we a depraved society that allows failure in this regard?GROUND RULES: Do not use the titles of essays you’ve read or the authors in your thesis or topic sentences. topics:Homeless: “On Compassion,” “Dumpster Diving,” “A Modest Proposal” Oppression/Racism: “Small Change,” Notes of a Native Son,” “Going It Alone”Power/Freedom: “Civil Disobedience,” “Pre-Game,” “The Paranoid Style of American Policing,” “The Refugee Crisis Isn’t About Refugees, It’s About Us”Behavior: “The Ways We Lie,” “Shooting an Elephant,” “On Being a Cripple,” “Does Truth Matter?” “On Compassion”Conceptual Ideas: “Allegory of the Cave,” “Civil Disobedience,” “Does Truth Matter?” “A Modest Proposal”