Famine Assignment
Famine, Affluence, and Morality by Peter Singer
Sadiqa Hall
PHI 208 Ethics and Moral Reasoning
Instructor: Amy Glidewell
March 12, 2013
Famine, Affluence, and Morality
Peter Singer
Singer’s goal for this article is that he is trying to present his case on how to support and help people in the economic trouble. He wants everyone to look at it from his own perspective and think about it in your own perspective also. He wants you to see how they are suffering and living without food, shelter and, Medicaid. He also wants us as the people to see how the world turned a lot of people in refugees. And through all of these economic problems happening in Bengal, there is no help with relief funds being sent to provide them in their time of desperate needs.
The three arguments that Singer has and that peaks my philosophical brain are:
One Argument: Lack of assistance with food, shelter, medical care and funds.
The Bengal people are suffering from not having enough food or not having any food to eat at all. They do not have enough resources to build places and homes to sleep or live in. And because of the lack of places to stay, they are living together and sleeping in large groups, which make poverty a problem in health. Sick kids and adults are getting other people sick because of close quarter living situation. This is why we as people should think about all the unnecessary stuff that we buy and do not need. That extra pair of sneakers could probably by medicine for a lot of families. That big flat screen television that we buy can help purchase plenty of supplies that can build homes for families and build hospitals for the sickly to be taken care of in a private and sterilized place. That is why he asks us to look beyond our own moral point of view.
Another argument is duty and charities
Singer believes that it should be our duty as citizens to want to help the people of Bengal out of their economic troubles. It should be second nature to people in our situation to
Sadiqa Hall
PHI 208 Ethics and Moral Reasoning
Instructor: Amy Glidewell
March 12, 2013
Famine, Affluence, and Morality
Peter Singer
Singer’s goal for this article is that he is trying to present his case on how to support and help people in the economic trouble. He wants everyone to look at it from his own perspective and think about it in your own perspective also. He wants you to see how they are suffering and living without food, shelter and, Medicaid. He also wants us as the people to see how the world turned a lot of people in refugees. And through all of these economic problems happening in Bengal, there is no help with relief funds being sent to provide them in their time of desperate needs.
The three arguments that Singer has and that peaks my philosophical brain are:
One Argument: Lack of assistance with food, shelter, medical care and funds.
The Bengal people are suffering from not having enough food or not having any food to eat at all. They do not have enough resources to build places and homes to sleep or live in. And because of the lack of places to stay, they are living together and sleeping in large groups, which make poverty a problem in health. Sick kids and adults are getting other people sick because of close quarter living situation. This is why we as people should think about all the unnecessary stuff that we buy and do not need. That extra pair of sneakers could probably by medicine for a lot of families. That big flat screen television that we buy can help purchase plenty of supplies that can build homes for families and build hospitals for the sickly to be taken care of in a private and sterilized place. That is why he asks us to look beyond our own moral point of view.
Another argument is duty and charities
Singer believes that it should be our duty as citizens to want to help the people of Bengal out of their economic troubles. It should be second nature to people in our situation to
References: Philosophy and Public Affairs, vol. 1, no. 1 (Spring 1972), pp. 229-243 [revised edition] http://www.utilitarian.net/singer/by/1972----.htm