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Episode #085 ... Peter Singer on Effective Altruism

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Jun 21, 2016
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ANECDOTE

Dying Child Analogy

  • Imagine a bleeding child outside a restaurant.
  • Would you help or walk by?
INSIGHT

Lottery of Birth

  • Being born in the West is like winning the lottery.
  • We have resources to help others, unlike most of history.
INSIGHT

Resources and Morality

  • Resources determine moral culpability.
  • Not having resources doesn't make an act less moral.
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