The Singer Solution To World Poverty: Response

“The Singer Solution to World Poverty” Summary/Response Melbourne, Australia native, Peter Singer, was born in 1946. Today, singer is known as one of the most controversial philosophers. Singer has taught at campuses such as Princeton, the University of Colorado and the University of California. Singer has had a long career as an animal rights activist and currently is a professor of Bioethics at Princeton University. Singer also writes books and was published in The New York Times. In Singers article piece “The Singer Solution to World Poverty”, several scenarios are depicted. In one scenario, Singer reminds the audience of the Brazilian film Central Station where a retired woman named Dora writes letters for people who are illiterate. An opportunity comes into play and she is given the chance to earn
This time it isn’t just a single person faced with a morally challenging situation, this time it’s just people. People that choose not to donate and help children with simple illnesses so they ultimately die due to starvation and lack of strength. Singer believes that if everyone would donate $200 it “would help a sickly two-year-old transform into a healthy six-year-old”. In Singer’s article, he lists two different organizations, Unicef and Oxfam, along with the numbers so that everyone reading will be persuaded to also donated to help children in need. Singer then goes to say that middle-class Americans can certainly donate more than $200. In fact, Singer says that Americans should donate in amounts more like $20,000. Singer comes to this reasoning because “a household with an income of $50,000 spends around $30,000 annually on necessities, according to the Conference Board. . .” Singer believes that whatever is left should be donated to children in need via the two toll free numbers he listed in his