World Poverty

Read articles and compose 1 long paper

Read: Peter Singer: “The Singer Solution to World Poverty”, Peter Singer: “Famine Affluence and Morality”, Ayn Rand: “The Ethics of Emergencies”

The topic:

You love listening to music. It’s your true passion. You were naturally thrilled when the newest generation iphone came out. The phone promises (and early reviews have confirmed it succeeds) to reproduce sound at a quality indistinguishable from that of compact discs. You gladly shoved your older iphone in the drawer and shelled out $700 for the new machine. But when your father discovers the old iphone in the drawer he is puzzled: “did you really have to upgrade? Isn’t there something better to do with all that money?”

How would Peter Singer respond to his question?

How would Ayn Rand respond?

What would you say to all three of them?

Please use at least 4 quotes from (each) the Singer and Rand readings.

Papers should run no longer than 5 pages.

……………………………Answer preview…………………………..

Over four decades since the article ‘famine, affluence and morality” by Peter Singer hit the airwaves, many people continue to perish in the most despicable yet preventable poverty. Singer observed that “the suffering and deaths…not inevitable, not avoidable,” (Singer, 1972). By this Singer meant that the suffering and deaths of people as a result of poverty was something that could well be prevented if people so wished. There is something that can be done to save these people from their situations…………………………………

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