4o Encontro ICIE (International
Center for Information Ethics) América Latina y el Caribe

Com o tema "Estrategias para el combate
a la desinformación:
el papel de la ética de la
información y la comunicación"

De 9 a 11 de outubro

E a vontade de ir para o Uruguay?

#éticadainformação #informationethics #desinformation #desinformação
#desinformacion #etica #ciênciadainformação

i watched a video where police and child services removed three children (2yo, 1yo, 7days) from a young couple (~20ish), struggling in poverty, with no other family to help. it was a horrible situation for everyone, including the young parents. it was clear they needed help.

the response: remove the children and arrest the parents.

i don't understand this approach of punishing poverty and struggling people no matter their age, but especially to young parents with a toddler, infant, and newborn. why not just provide all of them the help they need?

why don't we have healthy, helpful accommodations where anyone, but especially families with young children in poverty, can live temporarily while we assist them in stabilizing their situations, getting their needs taken care of, assisting them with finding a stable and healthful living situation that is permanent?

hell...why not provide that to everyone, everywhere? give people what they need.

then i stumbled on a @jackofalltrades toot that mentioned that we need a new system of accounting because the current system "treats the earth as a business in liquidation.”

what would a system of accounting for alleviating and eliminating poverty look like? the current system looks at poverty as an expense, something that costs. costs must be funded. how is it funded? who pays and to whom and for what is payment being made?

what are the assumptions made here? is there only a monetary cost? must such costs always be minimized?

a system that didn't treat poverty "as a business in liquidation" might look at it as a long term investment in appropriate allocation of resources, treating poverty as a generational injury to society and finding ways to heal it rather than continuing to harm.

#IdleContemplation #Ethics #CareEthics #CostBenefitAnalysis #InformationEthics #Poverty #Accounting