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This blog seems polemical in nature. I've read Singer's Practical Ethics, and he isn't trivializing the hunger issue inadvertently; it is on purpose. When there
by dbul 18y ago
This blog seems polemical in nature. I've read Singer's Practical Ethics, and he isn't trivializing the hunger issue inadvertently; it is on purpose. When there is a serious situation involving a split-second decision of whether someone lives or dies, you don't debate and argue.
The argument is also condescending to those being helped as though they are just taking up resources and not capable of expressing their gratitude in the form of work after receiving nourishment.
- niels_olson 18y agoI read some Singer before doing pig vivesection as part of a surgery rotation in medical school. His general method seems to be to draw a bright intellectual line, and proceed to demonstrate just how bright it is. Like any bright line, one need only look around at the world for a moment to realize it is a convenient intellectual exercise. Great for publishing papers and books, not so useful in the trenches.
- dbul 18y agoReplace "Singer" with "Gore" and I absolutely agree.