POL SCI 124C Chapter 4: PS124C Singer Reading
12 Apr 2018
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Attempt to place humans and animals on equal plane. Severely disabled infants should in some cases receive euthanasia. Gives one-fifth of income to famine-relief agencies. In this essay: singers offers thoughts about the ordinary american"s obligations to the world"s poor and suggests his own one-fifths standard is not enough. Reference the brazilian movie and dora"s decision to sell a child to organ peddlers but go back despite the 1000 reward and her new tv set. Wealth americans have extra money that aren"t spend on basic survival, they should donate it to people for which the money can mean life or death! If the upshot of the american"s failure to donate money is that one more kind dies on the streets of a brazilian city, it is in some sense just as bad as selling the kid to the organ peddlers . So, american consumer"s behavior raises a serious moral issue.
