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Argument against Singer's analogy of the pond
Peter Singer gave a famous argument in Famine, Affluence and Morality that made an analogy between saving a drowning child in a pond at the expense of getting your clothes wet, and donating the ...
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What responses are there to Singer's “Should this be the last generation?”
The article can be found here.
It deals with many issues, but what I would really like to see a response to is the following paragraph:
[W]hy don’t we make ourselves the last generation on earth? ...
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Resolving weighting conflicts in preference utilitarianism
Assuming we're dealing with the actions of two people based on the preferences of two non overlapping sets of affected people, other than the number of people, which methods are available to resolve ...
