PHI-2630 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Official Development Assistance, Extreme Poverty
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Lack of food, lack of safe drinking water, otherwise preventable and curable diseases, etc: about 21 children under the age of 5 die every minute, mainly from preventable causes. That is, some 1575 children under the age of 5 will die before this class is over: singer argues: We are morally required to give money to charities. Not donating money to charities is morally wrong. Suffering and death from lack of food, shelter, and medical care are bad. This is no longer trust given the advent of mass media and modern transportation: consequences. The everyday distinction between duty and charity is unjustified. It isn"t merely good to donate money to famine relief, it"s obligatory. Rights are connected with duties that others have towards you: as americans, we are already giving more than our share of foreign aid through our taxes.
