Famine, Affluence, and Morality
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"Famine, Affluence, and Morality" is an essay written by Peter Singer in 1971 and published in Philosophy and Public Affairs in 1972. It argues that affluent persons are morally obligated to donate far more resources to humanitarian causes than is considered normal in Western cultures. The essay was inspired by the starvation of Bangladesh Liberation War refugees, and uses their situation as an example, although Singer's argument is general in scope. The essay is anthologized widely as an example of Western ethical thinking.
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See also
- Demandingness objection
- Living High and Letting Die
- Bangladesh famine of 1974
- Effective altruism
- Doing Good Better by William MacAskill, 2015
- The Life You Can Save by Peter Singer, 2009
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- Effective altruism
- Charity assessment
- Demandingness objection
- Disability-adjusted life year
- Earning to give
- Equal consideration of interests
- Marginal utility
- Quality-adjusted life year
- Utilitarianism
- Venture philanthropy
- Aid effectiveness
- Biotechnology risk
- Climate change
- Cultured meat
- Disease burden
- Economic stability
- Existential risk from artificial general intelligence
- Global catastrophic risk
- Global health
- Global poverty
- Immigration reform
- Intensive animal farming
- Land use reform
- Life extension
- Malaria prevention
- Mass deworming
- Neglected tropical diseases
- Wild animal suffering
- Doing Good Better
- The End of Animal Farming
- Famine, Affluence, and Morality
- The Life You Can Save
- Living High and Letting Die
- The Most Good You Can Do
- Practical Ethics
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