PHIL 4 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Supererogation, Marginal Utility, Nationstates
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billion per year to eliminate world hunger by 2030. People are in desperate need of food, shelter, and medical care. Many have origins in the social and political circumstances surrounding either. Famines and crises all over globe colonialism or decolonization. Suffering and death from lack of food, shelter, medical services are bad. If it is in our power to prevent something bad from happening, without scarifying anything of comparable moral importance, then we ought to do it. "comparable moral importance": e. g. save one person"s life in the expense of someone else dying. [assume] suffering and death from lack of food, shelter, medical services are bad. [assume prevention principle] if it is in our power to prevent something bad from happening, without scarifying anything of comparable moral importance, from happening, without scarifying anything of comparable moral importance, then we ought to do it. [implicit]it is in your power to prevent something bad from happening.
