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Reflection # 5: Singer-Famine, affluence, and morality

Name: Zorays Abdullah

Prof Antonio Dos Santos

Peter singer is a philosopher who amplified world's moral crisis through his writings. In his writing he gave example of famine in Bengal that how people are dying there because of hunger and malnutrition and people of the west or those who are better off are not helping them in a correct manner. In terms of monetary value, he said relief funds and some countries are helping but they cannot do much as running another country is not cheap. He believes that everyone should be concerned with the problems that are happening in the world and we should not only care about our nation or society or ethnicity but rather we should help everyone.

To explain this, he gave an example that if a boy drowns in a lake in your city, we would not think a second to help him out but if a boy is dying of famine in a faraway land then sadly we would not even think of him. So, he criticizes this discrimination and said distances should not matter and we should help everyone out and we can do this by giving little amount of money towards relief funds so think it this way that every person gives 5 dollars from his income towards relief fund so think of the humongous amount that would pool to help others. He also says that do not think of this money as a charity rather think that it is our responsibility to help others. furthermore, morally speaking he also criticize those people who do not give out donations because if you can afford a 60$ food then surely you can donate 6$ towards charity.

Another thing which he mentioned which would help to reduce famine in certain places is population control. Population control is a necessary step a nation must take because earth resources are finite and it can only provide for certain amount of people so for that awareness and media campaigns should be started.