ATS2637 Study Guide - Final Guide: Organ Donation, Effective Altruism
1 Aug 2018
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W7 - what we owe others (& effective altruism) Utilitarianism (classical): act towards what maximises utility (happiness) Supererogatory acts - acts which are good but not morally required. Backgrounds: people are dying in india from lack of food, shelter, and medical care; 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: drowning child analogy. It makes no moral difference whether it is a child near to me, or a starving person in india; Geography/being far away is not the reason not to help. It makes no difference whether i am the only person who could possibly do anything, or i am just one among millions in the same position; I am no less obliged to pull the drowning child out of the pond if on looking around i see other people.
