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Episode #085 ... Peter Singer on Effective Altruism

Philosophize This!

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The ethical approach to life known as effective altruism. Peter singer points out that six point nine million children die a year of completely preventable poverty related causes. We currently live in a world where each and every one of those people that were negatively judging those other people walking past the little girl dying on the news have resources and access to charities that could drastically decrease that number, yet they choose not to. How can you possibly live with yourself for the rest of your life knowing that you could have saved this little girl's life?

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