What Is Peter Singer's Solution To Poverty Rhetorical Analysis

Peter Singer brings to light a very important global problem, poverty, and offers an extreme solution to solve this problem. Peter Singer argues that the solution to world poverty is living simply and giving all excess household money to charities. Singer uses effective examples to get his point across, but gives an unreasonable solution. He gives the example that the failure to donate money will directly result in the death of children in need. "Whatever money you're spending on luxuries, not necessities, should be given away." (Singer) Singer argues his solution by appealing strongly to pathos, or emotion. He tries to make readers feel guilty, by saying that they are literally killing children overseas by spending money on “…things not essential to the preservation of our lives and health”, which he considers luxuries. (Singer) He
He uses a serious and stern tone to show how serious the matter of overseas poverty is and how easy it would be to solve this problem. His tone is offensive at times, directly accusing the reader of the death of children outside of our borders, in places such as Brazil. (Singer) Singer shifts the target of the essay to not just the individual reader, but to the American people as a whole. He accuses the American people, who most citizens feel are relatively generous and willing to help people in need, of extreme selfishness, which helps discredit his argument. Peter Singer points out a large problem in overseas poverty and had many good data points to support this, but offers unreasonable solutions to fix it. Using pathos, he appeals to moral values and makes the reader feel like they are responsible and need to do something about this problem. He offers the solution of giving all excess money not used for necessities to overseas charities, which disinterests the reader and makes Singer a non-credible