PHLA11H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Médecins Sans Frontières
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There are around 1. 4 billion people live in conditions of extreme poverty. Our moral obligations to aid the poor are much stronger than is ordinarily supposed. Suffering and death from lack of food, shelter and medical care are bad. (singer, p. 231) Strong version: if it is in our power to prevent something bad from happening, without thereby sacrificing anything of comparable moral importance, we ought, morally, to do it. (p. 231) Moderate version: if it is in our power to prevent something very bad from happening, without thereby sacrificing anything morally significant, we ought, morally, to do it. (p. 231) If it is in our power to prevent something very bad from happening, without thereby sacrificing anything morally significant, we ought, morally, to do it. (p. Illustration: if i am walking past a shallow pond and see a child drowning in it, i ought to wade in and pull the child out.
