PHIL 1200 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Correlation Does Not Imply Causation
15 May 2017
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He accepts this (although his view is not unique, in a way christ and the thousands of christian saints had a similar moral view) But this is not a weakness of his position. It is a weakness of the common conception. It is our views that need to be changes, not singer"s, which are perfectly rational after all. Another objection to singer: asking people for too much, as singer does, might turn them to the wrong direction and make them refuse to help even a little. Even worse, it might lead them to abandon morality altogether (if morality asks me to give all i have to the poor, until they are as rich as i am, i do not want morality at all) Perhaps talk about charity as sugar-coating for a pill that we want people to swallow (out of purely utilitarian reason like those of singer: an objection from economics:
