Peter Singer On Poverty

In this short clip Peter Singer draws on ideas from his "Singer Solution to World Poverty" article, and discusses arguments for why we should help people living in absolute poverty.

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Education

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• Peter
• Singer
• Ethics
• Poverty

[LearningAsIGo80]

Stupid utilitarians

[ttwilkable]

some great inforamtion here thanks

[staranjela]

i enjoyed this vid

[staranjela]

Very enjoyable thank you

[PlatoJaspers]

That's a nice thought. Still, this is called a thought experiment, it's symbolic for the choices we make in everyday life...;)

[IdeaSpreader]

"easier but no less challenging" .....what?!

[gen6k]

its too hard for the middle class, they get dominated, then they have to pig out on dominoes and netflix.

[johnnytastetest]

Wait - why do you suppose that refugee child is standing in the middle of the railroad tracks? Maybe, just like Singer, the little guy came to the conclusion that a person should always try to live as ethically as possible? And because he doesn't have even a little bit of money to affect any real change, maybe he's decided that the most altruistic thing to do is kill himself, so others will have a better quality of life due to them no longer having to pine over stuff like what cars NOT to buy.

[danielfact]

The right thing to do, I think, would be to save the car and not the child; then one could sell the car and donate the money to UNICEF so that even more children could be saved.