Famine, Affluence and Morality
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Note: At 33:49 I mention 'Bodin', what I actually meant to say was 'Hardin' - Dave.
Imagine that on your way to work you see a child drowning in the shallow end of a pond. All it will take to save them is to wade in and pull them out. It will mean that you destroy your new shoes, and your jeans get wet. Do you have an obligation to pull the child out?
That is what Peter Singer asks us in his 1972 paper 'Famine, Affluence, and Morality'. Singer argues we do have an obligation to pull the child out, and from that argues we have an obligation to help the distant poor. It is considered a seminal paper in ethics, and one that all Philosophy students will study at some point. As well as some students involved in the Social Sciences.
This is a discussion about Peter Singer's paper with Joe and Philip on Answers in Reason. In it we discuss Singer's original paper, some of the discourse surrounding his argument, some of the more well known responses to his argument, and effective altruism.
Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yh-RwGPwdk
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