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Famine, Affluence and Morality

Famine, Affluence and Morality. Peter Singer. Assumption. Suffering and death from lack of food, shelter, and medical care are bad. Premise 1.

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Famine, Affluence and Morality

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  1. Famine, Affluence and Morality Peter Singer

  2. Assumption • Suffering and death from lack of food, shelter, and medical care are bad.

  3. Premise 1 • If it is in our power to prevent something bad from happening, without thereby sacrificing anything of comparable moral importance, we ought, morally, to do it

  4. Weaker premise 1 • If it is in my power to prevent something very bad from happening, without thereby sacrificing anything of comparable morally significant, we ought, morally, to do it.

  5. Drowning child example • I am walking by a fountain and there is a small child drowning. I can save him or her but I have to get my clothes wet to do so.

  6. Relevant factors/possible objections • Proximity • Number of people

  7. Duty and Charity • Supererogatory act vs. duties • e.g., buying clothes to look to look “well-dressed’.

  8. Objections 1) Too drastic a revision of the moral scheme. 2) Population control 3) How much should we give?

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