The Moral Commandment Is to Maximize Utility

Singer says we should do something to prevent a moral problem, as long as it doesn't cause a similar moral problem. He also argues that expert observers and supervisors sent out by famine relief organizations or permanently statioed famine ponareas can direct our aid almost as effectively as we could get it to somebody on our own block. 'It's one of the most naive and ridiculous things i've ever seen anybody who's published in print say,' yesbt, the reatity of the situation is the reason there's famine'