PHIL 209J Chapter Notes -J. O. Urmson, Population Control
17 Feb 2014
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4 february 2013 unavoidable: something can be done to prevent suffering and death they aren"t inevitable or. If we can prevent something bad from happening without sacrificing anything of equal or greater moral significance, we ought, morally, to do it: the distance of the person you are helping makes no difference. In a better position to judge what a person needs when close. Can provide the assistance we judge necessary. The development of the world eradicates all justifications for not helping those far away. If we only bought enough clothes to keep us warm and gave away the rest, we would be preventing someone else from starving. It is wrong not to give the money we don"t spend on necessities. Too drastic a change: argument 1: j. o. Moral attitudes are shaped by the needs of a society. Society needs people who will obey the laws.
