How do you respond (other than "humans are naturally lazy") to the connection with the drowning child?
Donating to charity can bodaciously save lives.
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- Sat Sep 10, 2011 7:21 am
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- Sat Sep 10, 2011 7:20 am
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Re: It's moments like these that you need Minties
Can I be high on life
- Sat Sep 10, 2011 7:17 am
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I'm probably not doing it justice here, but he's basically attempting to get people past their laziness by appealing to their sense of right and wrong. Nobody wants to be a bad person. If not helping a drowning child right in front of you makes you a bad person, Singer argues that not helping people...
- Sat Sep 10, 2011 7:14 am
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Re: Why Crawfish is a terrible person:
I've been kicking around a few ideas
- Sat Sep 10, 2011 7:12 am
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Re: Why Crawfish is a terrible person:
Well
At least you've got your foot in the door
At least you've got your foot in the door
- Sat Sep 10, 2011 7:07 am
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I think he fails to take into account several parts of human nature. We are lazy, creatures of habit, and if something isn't happening right in front of us then we have no reason to care. If it doesn't directly affect (effect?) us then we generally don't care, but if it does then we will do everyth...
- Sat Sep 10, 2011 7:00 am
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Re: Why Crawfish is a terrible person:
Are you like King Midas only with punching holes in things
- Sat Sep 10, 2011 6:55 am
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Agh I explained it horribly Okay let me start over Basically, the thought goes that if you have enough to live comfortably and then buy more luxuries, you morally should have used that extra to help people less fortunate than you. If you don't, you're selfish. He uses the thought experiemnt of a chi...
- Sat Sep 10, 2011 6:47 am
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Dinghy x Yacht
- Sat Sep 10, 2011 6:46 am
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No, the opposite. He thinks everyone should be morally obligated to.
Sorry I worded that badly.
Sorry I worded that badly.
- Sat Sep 10, 2011 6:43 am
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Not saying we have to switch subjects just yet, but there's another topic that's sort of interesting to me because I'm really unsure of where I stand on it Peter Singer argues (from what I remember understanding) that it is not good to give to charity. It is morally obligatory to do so in order to b...
- Sat Sep 10, 2011 5:44 am
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Re: It's moments like these that you need Minties
Volunteered to prompt for a theater group that was supposed to be off scripts. They weren't off scripts though, so I just sat there bored. Almost fell asleep Then sat in a bar for an hour while they talked about things I couldn't give a shit about because I was the designated driver for a few of them
- Sat Sep 10, 2011 5:23 am
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- Sat Sep 10, 2011 5:18 am
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Never gotten why Hitler became the epitome of human evil to people when Stalin was just as bad, if not worse, since unlike Hitler he didn't care about the people he governed. It could be because we(USA) sided with Stalin even while he was doing all his killing. Obviously the USA doesn't ever side w...
- Fri Sep 09, 2011 7:45 pm
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How exactly are we defining "suffering" here