Critical Response
A Response to “The Singer Solution to World Poverty”
Everyday millions of children around the world fight for survival due to starvation, lack of shelter, and proper healthcare. World poverty increases significantly daily, and innocent children lives are being affected and destroyed. The fact that the child cannot address their world poverty issue hands on, should encourage people to give back to communities that are less fortunate. In “The Singer Solution to World Poverty” Peter Singers argues, that people main priorities are luxury items instead of supporting charitable agencies that are fighting against world poverty. Many individuals follow the saying “Keeping up with the Joneses” . Which means they try to live a lavish lifestyle, but really forget about the bigger picture, and that’s helping children who struggles to get a meal daily. Singer is right we should help support charitable agencies, but in order for that to happen people should be more open-minded about donating, and put away their fancy lifestyle and luxury items. Singer argues that many people are not willing to put aside their wants, and make a sacrifice to help impoverished children. Now, evolutionary psychologists tell us that human nature just is not sufficiently altruistic to make it plausible that many people will not sacrifice so much for stranger (327). This statement saddens me, because what if that is your or your family, and somebody thought of you all strangers, and would not want to help your family out of poverty? Singer then explains that we ought to do things that predictably most of wouldn’t (327). Majority feel that if does benefit them in the end then why bother. Honestly, donating will benefit you it makes you feel like a better person, and you have helped an individual in need. Sometimes you should sacrifice your wants for others needs. As singer states the life of a child is more important then going to fancy restaurants, the next time you dine out know that you could
Everyday millions of children around the world fight for survival due to starvation, lack of shelter, and proper healthcare. World poverty increases significantly daily, and innocent children lives are being affected and destroyed. The fact that the child cannot address their world poverty issue hands on, should encourage people to give back to communities that are less fortunate. In “The Singer Solution to World Poverty” Peter Singers argues, that people main priorities are luxury items instead of supporting charitable agencies that are fighting against world poverty. Many individuals follow the saying “Keeping up with the Joneses” . Which means they try to live a lavish lifestyle, but really forget about the bigger picture, and that’s helping children who struggles to get a meal daily. Singer is right we should help support charitable agencies, but in order for that to happen people should be more open-minded about donating, and put away their fancy lifestyle and luxury items. Singer argues that many people are not willing to put aside their wants, and make a sacrifice to help impoverished children. Now, evolutionary psychologists tell us that human nature just is not sufficiently altruistic to make it plausible that many people will not sacrifice so much for stranger (327). This statement saddens me, because what if that is your or your family, and somebody thought of you all strangers, and would not want to help your family out of poverty? Singer then explains that we ought to do things that predictably most of wouldn’t (327). Majority feel that if does benefit them in the end then why bother. Honestly, donating will benefit you it makes you feel like a better person, and you have helped an individual in need. Sometimes you should sacrifice your wants for others needs. As singer states the life of a child is more important then going to fancy restaurants, the next time you dine out know that you could
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