last night, at a party, I heard a student say he was studying agriculture. He was hoping to go to a third world country and work with improving agriculture or something in that vein of interest. How nice. We all want to save the world. We tend to spend a lot of time thinking about how we can change other people's lives, especially as college students. Many of us find meaning in actions that make other people happy, more secure, and "better" (whatever that word means)
Check it out: http://www.idealist.org/
Engagement in serving others is wonderful. But here's an issue: Rationalize trying to change the lives of other people, (generally speaking of less rich nations) when changing our ways of living could also ameliorate their ways of living. We presume A Lot to think we can always help people who live in nations with a lower GDP than the USA.
More thoughts on this later...
