Lack of basic necessities

Scientific research today reveals that hunger is a motivating force more powerful than even thirst. But despite these studies, the universal rule of three, which applies to every human being, tells us that you can live up to three minutes without air, three days without water and three weeks without food; therefore everything that is basic is important. Prolonged lack of foodand I mean extreme hunger, makes even human morality flexible under these circumstances.

Siege of Leningrad, took place between 1941 and 1942, was a a terrible laboratory of what this deficiency can do to the morality of a human beingwhen about two million people were subject to a hunger strike German armydriven by a perverted mind Hitler. It is better, he thought, to let the civilian population go starve to death, but waste valuable resources feeding them. To their surprise, they resisted inside that trench of death for up to 900 days; but at what cost? As their meager provisions dwindled, a terrible famine settled upon them; the so-called digestive brain has since taken control of their actions, and they have been motivated by only one thing: to eat, to feed the demanding body cells that have since taken over the domain of men. So the corpses were soon “used”; mothers killed some children to feed others with their tender flesh. Morality, carefully conducted by human society for millennia, is swept away in just a few months by the shadow of a voracious and primitive appetite that takes control in such circumstances.

Viktor Frankle, survivor of the Nazi concentration camps, tells us how the prisoners, including him, gradually deformed their spirit, due to the deliberate lack of food. The only thing they thought about was food, and they did anything and anyone for it. They were not affected at all by witnessing the pain and suffering of others, while the curtain of hunger was increasing selfishness and slowly nourished their bodies. Prayers, mercy, compassion, everything remained outside the fence of the concentration camps; these feelings were created as a kind of vague memory of a life that was no longer possible for them; a world where hunger has become the best weapon to subjugate their captors.

Therefore, the lack satisfaction of basic needs, although they were never comparable to those previous scenes I painted, begin to change man in the depth of his personality, where bitterness and social resentment are slowly simmering. How do you expect a mother who still has children in childhood and who can’t even take them out to react? personal hygiene, due to lack of water? How could we criticize a father of a family who suffers in his own physical nightmares lived by the loved ones of his home, who seek a solution in the midst of a powerlessness that knows no bounds? What to say to the population that is subjected, due to the lack of urban forecast, to the lack of that vital liquid? In a way, these urbanizations seem to be under siege; as condemned to suffer extreme need such as the lack of drinking water. Water is so important that any primitive human settlement searched always near some spring before erecting their huts; First the water, then the roof, then everything else, was the rule. That’s how it was and that’s how it will always be for us as humans, although now we are not supplied with this liquid to our cities by rivers, but by water pipes. Depriving a person of that supply, due to lack of a urbanism, will make lions out of every sheep, because the first thing they will see at risk is the well-being and health of their families.