PHIL448 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Fast Fourier Transform, Effective Altruism, Murder Of Kitty Genovese
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Some preliminary considerations: the situation of east bengal in 1971 is not unique, impact=pop. x aff. x tech. Enviro impact==size of pop, affluence of pop, and technology. Some tech have greater enviro impact than others. Large human pops on earth cause damage: world population growth rate is declining, but pop. is still huge. They are most likely to be put in industrialized. Singer"s background problem: starvation and death from preventable causes is common, and rich countries do little to help. In fact, they do far less than they are capable of doing they fail to provide for the essential needs of the poor: his general solution: our moral conceptual scheme must be altered. Evidence for the truth of the moderate principle (argument by analogy): child drowning in the shallow muddy pond example: two claims about the moderate principle: Proximity to the recipient of aid makes no difference concerning the responsibility to act.
