PHLA11H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Unit, Médecins Sans Frontières
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Lack food, water, living in horrible conditions, on the blink of death or diseases. Week 9 lecture #15: tuesday march 01, 2016. For thursday, read: john arthur, world hunger and moral obligation: the case against singer. There are around 1. 4 billion people live in conditions of extreme poverty. Our moral obligations to aid the poor are much stronger than is ordinarily supposed. Suffering and death from lack of food, shelter, and medical care are bad. (singer, p. 231) Thinks that both of them are quite strong. Even from the moderate argument you can get a strong conclusion from it. Strong version: 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. (p. 231) Moderate version: if it is in our power to prevent something very bad from happening, without thereby sacrificing anything morally significant, we ought, morally, to do it. (p. 231)
