L30 Phil 131F Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Charity Assessment, Net Impact, Consequentialism
12 Dec 2018
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Breakdown of peter singer"s argument that it is wrong of us not to donate to effective charities helping people in extreme poverty. Ethical premise: if we can prevent something very bad from happening, without thereby sacrificing anything nearly as morally significant, then it would be wrong not to do so. Ex: child drowning in a shallow pond. Empirical premise: we can prevent very bad things from happening, without thereby sacrificing anything nearly as morally significant, by giving to effective charities helping people in extreme poverty. It is therefore wrong for us not to donate to said charities. Consequentialism vs. non-consequentialism fails to bring about the overall best outcome available. , the ethical theory that claims an act is wrong if it. Moral options: it is sometimes okay for you to do less that what would result in presence of moral options . And moral constraints the overall best outcome (which would have been consequentialism)
