In his paper, "Famine, Affluence, and Morality," Peter Singer asserts that, “If it is in our power to prevent something very bad from happening, without thereby sacrificing anything morally significant, we ought, morally, to do it” (467). Is this principle correct? How might someone argue against it?
I believe this principle is correct and that it requires us only to prevent what is bad and to promote what is good and it requires this of us only when we can do it without sacrificing anything that…
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