“Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.” The above quote is from the Martin Luther King Jr.'s speech Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence. Just like the light and the darkness of a day, it can be said that there are only two types of people in the world: the wealthy people who enjoy the affluence and the poor ones who suffer the indigence. As a result, it leads to a question that asks “should the rich people/nations give a hand by sharing with the poor people/nations?” For Johnson C. Montgomery, in his essay’s “The Island of Plenty”, his answer is No. However, in Warren Buffet’s essay “Stop Coddling the Super-Rich”, his opinion may be Yes. Therefore, throughout this paper, I will go through these two articles in order to clarify my statement that our lives need to have more sympathy, sharing and charity instead of being isolated or selfish. In Johnson C. Montgomery’s “The Island of Plenty”, he writes of an argument in favor of American social isolationism. Montgomery claims, “At the moment, the future of mankind seems to depend on our maintaining the island of plenty in a sea of deprivation” (542), which clearly shows his strong belief that the resources we have are limited and should be kept for our future generations. According to his essay, the problem is not the food supply but the overpopulation. Therefore, Montgomery says that by feeding starving people in the poor countries, we are encouraging them to reproduce and cause more misery and hunger in the future. Moreover, he also mentions his life experience, his organization (the Zero Population Growth), and the attitude how he raises his children. Montgomery says that children are the future of the world, but only those who are nourished, educated and loved. He criticizes and refuses to give away the resources to the poor developing nations that have not been responsible to reduce the birthrate like the US. On the other hand, Warren Buffet’s article, “Stop Coddling the Super-Rich”, shows a different point of view. Buffet believes that “shared sacrifice” of the rich toward the poor is important and necessary within the society. He points out that there is unfairness in the taxation between the poor/middles versus the mega-rich. With many statistic numbers from his own and his mega-rich friends’ tax rates comparing with his employers’, Buffet tries to prove that people whose middle income are taxed with the higher rate than the millionaires or billionaires in this country. As a result, in his essay, Buffet argues that the US government should apply the higher taxation to the super-rich group. He claims in the end of his article, “My friend and I have been coddled long enough by a billionaire – friendly Congress. It’s time for our government to get serious about shared sacrifice” (Buffet 277), which once again emphasizes his opinion in placing more tax to the rich people. Although they were written at different periods of time which is almost 30 years apart and und