PHILOS 2YY3 Chapter Singer: Reading 21 – Singer “Famine, Affluence and Morality”
3 Apr 2018
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Reading 21 singer famine, affluence and morality . Argues that we have a duty to provide aid to famine victims and others who are suffering from hunger and poverty. Proposes two principles: a strong one and a moderate one: these show that we have a duty to give substantial aid to those who are starving. Strong principle: says that if it is in our power to prevent something bad from happening, without sacrificing anything of our own comparable moral importance, we ought to morally do it. Moderate principle: aka weak" principle, says that if it is in our power to prevent something very bad from happening, without sacrificing anything morally significant, we ought to morally do it. The suffering and death that are occurring in the world today are not inevitable nor unavoidable. Even at the governmental level: no government has ever given massive aid to help others for more than a few days.
