What do you think about the Singer article? Do you think he's right? Are we really morally obligated to give to relief efforts and other means of ending suffering until the point at which we would be giving up something of comparable moral worth? Why or why not?
I think Singer has hit the nail on the head. Charity, or as he calls it, duty
must be something to which everyone commits. Reading the article echoed what my mother used to say at the dinner table, "You know
people in Africa would do anything for what you are throwing away right now." The implication was never that I should eat more in order to finish it (albeit, it seems that is what kids do nowadays). Nor was the implication that I should put the food in a glad bag, pack it with dry ice, and mail it over. The goal of her stating such an obvious and unfortunate statement was that I should not live in excessiveness, nor should I live beyond my means. This is a rather large statement for her to make in regards to me......
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