Famine Affluence And Morality Analysis
Ethics Assignment 3
Lizzie Cattell
In the essay “Famine, Affluence, and Morality” author, Peter Singer, exercises his theory about everyone’s moral obligation to help world hunger. Every day people make choices, whether it be what pants to wear, what food items to buy at the store, or whether or not you donate money to those suffering. Across the world there are avoidable sufferings according to Singer as long as people do their part; “if it is in our power to prevent something very bad from happening, we ought to morally do it” (889).
Across the United States, everyday lives would change dramatically if Peter Singer’s theory was set in place. He brings to the reader’s attention that there is a difference between duty and charity. This thought
Lizzie Cattell
In the essay “Famine, Affluence, and Morality” author, Peter Singer, exercises his theory about everyone’s moral obligation to help world hunger. Every day people make choices, whether it be what pants to wear, what food items to buy at the store, or whether or not you donate money to those suffering. Across the world there are avoidable sufferings according to Singer as long as people do their part; “if it is in our power to prevent something very bad from happening, we ought to morally do it” (889).
Across the United States, everyday lives would change dramatically if Peter Singer’s theory was set in place. He brings to the reader’s attention that there is a difference between duty and charity. This thought