PHL 603 Lecture 8: CPHL 603 Lecture 8
2 Jun 2016
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Money is donated to disasters and crises: money is just the intent of something good being done, but often not all the money is used properly. General principle takes no account of multiple capable agents (if there are other people that can do it, i am not less obliged to help. If it affects your education, job, rights that you have. Duty: wrong not to do it, whats morally required, refrain from murder. Beyond call of duty: charitable things, good to do it, not wrong to refrain from doing it, giving to famine relief without sacrificing something morally significant (singer believes this should be a call of duty) Objection 2: require that we all work full time to increase the balance of happiness over misery. We tend to separate ourselves from others. If he was to spend the money on drugs/alcohol, we can consider his addiction as an illness.
