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A (New) Darwinian Left - Peter Singer (Live in Melbourne)

The Joe Walker Podcast

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How Much Does It Cost to Save a Statistical Life?

The principle which you first elucidated in famine affluence morality is that if we can help someone avoid harm or suffering without sacrificing anything of comparable significance then we all morally to do that. i propose a kind of a a scale of giving that doesn't involve great sacrifice from anyone it's like a tax scale and starts at one percent for people who are only just sort of you know above a sort of comfortable level and don't have much that they could spare. Then it goes up to a third of your income for people who're very wealthy um but i think at all of those levels you're not really making any serious sacrifice. You're actually feeling good about yourself that you're making this difference

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