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Chapter 02: Is it Wrong Not to Help? Read by Paul Simon.

The Life You Can Save by Peter Singer (Audiobook)

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The Importance of Suffering

Unger: In saving money for retirement, we are effectively refusing to use that money to help save lives. How can it be wrong to save for a comfortable retirement? There is, at the very least, something puzzling here," he writes. Unger says our moral intuitions are not always reliable and variations in what people find intuitively acceptable or objectionable vary from place to place.

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