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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: General Discussions
Last post by dodge -
You're right, but it gets tricky with many things requiring continuous help or concurrent singular events requiring a decision (eg fires in Vic v floods in Qld) as to which one person's limited funds can go to - am I better off giving $100 to one or $50 to two?
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: General Discussions
Last post by PaulP -
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Thanks Paul - a good read.  I could only really find pdfs, so can't link - just do a search.

Essentially,  "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."  He uses the 1970s Bengal Famine as an example.

A couple of links, one from the University Of Maryland, and one from the University Of Colorado.

https://terpconnect.umd.edu/~dcrocker/Courses/Docs/Singer-Famine%20Affluence%20Morality.pdf

https://rintintin.colorado.edu/~vancecd/phil308/Singer2.pdf

It's pretty hard to find anything wrong with his argument IMO.


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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: General Discussions
Last post by dodge -
Thanks Paul - a good read.  I could only really find pdfs, so can't link - just do a search.

Essentially,  "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."  He uses the 1970s Bengal Famine as an example.