PHIL 103 Lecture 16: Singer and Sen
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So much of our income is spent on things not essential to the preservation of our lives and health. Essentially saying it is equally bad for us to not donate money as it would be to condemn a child to death. Violation of rights is not in itself a bad thing, nor fulfillment intrinsically good. However, they don"t figure in moral accounting as goals to be generally promoted, but only as constraints that others must obey. The fulfillment of rights as goals to be generally promoted, rather than taking them as demanding only that we refrain from violating the rights of others.
