#228 - Doing Good
Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content
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The Importance of Charity in the World
I think there's a few things to say here. The fact that you're a self-made man doesn't mean that you don't have any obligations to help other people so Peter Singer's now very famous thought experiment is neither here nor there with respect to whether you ought to try and wade in and save this child he might be drowning. And then just on the second point is about whether well maybe charity gets in the way maybe it's actually harmful because it makes people rely on bailouts. We shouldn't expect markets or government to be taking appropriate care of those individuals who are disenfranchised by both the market and by even democratic institutions.
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