Analysis: The Singer Solution To World Poverty

In my recent travels to Tijuana, Mexico, my daughter said: “Daddy, why are there so many kids asking for money?” At that moment of time, I had no answer to give her. Finally, I told her that Mexico is a country that lacks support for its indigenous people. That the government of Mexico does a poor job in taking care of its people in need. She responded by saying “our country gives a lot of free food to kids.” I then told her that a lot of countries in this world have the same issue. At that moment her facial expression turned somber. I can only imagine she used empathy be to put herself in the same situation as the kids asking for money. She proceeded to ask if there was anything she could do to help. If we truly want to make the world a better
In the article “The Singer Solution to World Poverty” by Peter Singer advocates for Americans to donate more to charities to help world poverty. That we are not giving enough. The issue we encounter is we do not see these poor kids in other countries at a personal level. They are just a picture on a website. Thus, we are not able to put ourselves in their shoes. Without that empathy connection, we will not see the need to give. Peter Singer believes Americans have plenty to give. That we should be donating one-fifth of our salaries to the charity organization. Yet, many of us don’t. All it would take to donate is a change our lifestyle spending habits. Only buying things we need to survive, and not purchasing items we can live without. Like, the new tv Dora wanted in his
The news article in The New Yorker magazine called “The Baby in the Well” by Paul Bloom, says, it took baby Jessica falling into an abandoned narrow well in Texas, for American’s to become empathetic. President Ronald Reagan remarked, “Everybody in America became godmothers and godfathers.” American’s watching the baby Jessica events transpire where rivetted to the TV. A lot of stories ran on tv cause us to use moral judgment and sympathy instead of empathy. Which Blooms states can lead us to make the wrong decisions when it comes to