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About an argument in Famine, Affluence and Morality
This is a false dilemma.
Why limiting your children, or not, is the only option, and not working towards changing the social conditions in order for others to get fair chances?
To me, this is a false ...
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Request for philosophers opposed to Singer's Famine, Affluence and Morality
This is easy. The "philosopher" you're interested in is Ayn Rand and the philosophy she created is called Objectivism. No one is better at defending selfishness than Ayn Rand, and she has ...
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Request for philosophers opposed to Singer's Famine, Affluence and Morality
Your guilt is not irrational. That you feel it, is because you are a human being with empathy, and a moral sense.
Your embrace of libertarian thinking is a common attitude among adolescents, who are ...
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About an argument in Famine, Affluence and Morality
Your premise already answers your question: Probably not.
Peter Singer argues that if it is in our power to prevent something bad from happening, without thereby sacrificing anything of comparable ...
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About an argument in Famine, Affluence and Morality
Let's modify your question slightly, so that we address the situation in which children not only lack access to education, but to the bare minimum standards of what most of us in privileged ...
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About an argument in Famine, Affluence and Morality
Singer's recipe doesn't solve the underlying problem, which is that of balancing competing objectives. If you had billions of dollars lying unused in a bank account, it would be easy to see that they ...
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About an argument in Famine, Affluence and Morality
Singer doesn't negate kin-selection. He says rather that the direction of moral progress, is towards expanding the circle of our moral concern. Our first concern is descendents, then kin, then people ...
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About an argument in Famine, Affluence and Morality
Nah. Such systems negate the possibility of holding values. And that negates morality.
Moral values are, no surprise, values.
The question "What value is a thing?" requires the corresponding ...
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Request for philosophers opposed to Singer's Famine, Affluence and Morality
i should have make more specific here.
India and Bengal was the colony of GB, so all the accidents was the Gb fault.
If the charity found is belong to "GB" management it has interest to be ...
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Request for philosophers opposed to Singer's Famine, Affluence and Morality
A good place to start when analyzing someone argument is to list their assumptions. Singer explicitly states 2:
"[S]uffering and death from lack of food, shelter, and medical care are bad."
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Request for philosophers opposed to Singer's Famine, Affluence and Morality
Cosmic Skeptic (Alex) made a video, Should You Sell All Your Possessions?, discussing this topic, and he references Timmerman's article Sometimes there is nothing wrong with letting a child drown, and ...
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Request for philosophers opposed to Singer's Famine, Affluence and Morality
I am looking for objections to Singer's essay and ways to get rid of this irrational guilt. I am also seeking to know if my views are supported by some famous and influential contemporary philosophers....
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Request for philosophers opposed to Singer's Famine, Affluence and Morality
There is simply no correct answer to this. All values by their very nature are subjective and come down to preference. Once you realize that your preferences are no more valid than his preferences ...
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Request for philosophers opposed to Singer's Famine, Affluence and Morality
I assume from your question that Singer is arguing that the affluent have a moral obligation to relieve the suffering of the starving. If you wish to rid yourself of a sense of guilt induced by ...
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