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Peter Singer on Consequentialism

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Why We Shouldn't Indulge in Every Whim That Our Children Ask Us For

If you give a thousand dollars to somebody whose annual income is less than a thousand dollars, and that's true for at least 700 million people in the world to day, you're doing them a much greater benefit. As a parent, i can imagine trying to explain to my son, oh, you can't have a football because that money could probably save a child's life. But if your son is asking for the latest x box, or, as they grow older, they want a really fancy phone, there's a point at which you should stop and say, look, there are other people in theworld who don't get enough to eat,. Or for whom you know, who may

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