Zimbabwe access to the basic necessities of life. Singer argues we have widespread obligations to the world’s poor‚ but we can meet them without being deprived of all of our worldly assets and possessions. This essay aims to defend Singer’s arguments that we‚ fitting a picture of absolute affluence‚ have a moral obligation to help those in poverty. Singer’s position on our moral obligation to aid the world’s poor is characteristically frank and rests on three premises. The first premise states that
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Peter Singer argues that all people have a moral obligation to donate all that we can to the poor. The suffering and starving of those people living in poverty are not inevitable; many of us have the ability to eliminate this suffering‚ however‚ we choose not to. We have a moral duty to prevent bad things from happening as long as it does not cost at the cost of “sacrificing anything morally significant”. (Ethical Theory). Therefore‚ making such donation is moral duty for people living in affluent countries
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This is the core of discussion whether there is a general moral obligation to obey the law. This discussion started in the 1970’s in the United States. The background to it was the civil rights movement in the United States‚ and the Vietnam War with its political scandals. People who disagreed with the governments’ policies started arguing that sometimes‚ a citizen is justified in acting illegally. The question is: does a citizen have a moral duty to obey the law and if so‚ why? In the writings of
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A MORAL OBLIGATION: PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY 1 A Moral Obligation: Personal Responsibility Richard D. Paul II University of Phoenix A MORAL OBLIGATION: PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY 2 Two years ago I separated from the Air Force after thirteen years of service. I finally made the decision to further my education to open more career opportunities and advancements. Since the courses I am taking are online‚ there is an even higher pressure for the accountability
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ultimately murdered‚ he raises his right hand in honor of the gods saying: “the ones who sent me forth have brought me home” (pg. 134). This most accurately portrays Agamemnon’s dilemma; that is‚ he is imprisoned in the middle of two moral obligations. Each of these obligations is absolute but in utter opposition with one another. Agamemnon is an innocent man forced by the gods into making a morally problematic decision. Agamemnon arrives late in Aeschylus’ play; until his arrival with Cassandra‚ most
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I’ll begin by looking at Savulescu’s strong belief of the moral obligation to genetically modify humans. Recent studies have shown there are early indicators‚ in our genes‚ that determine certain aspects of our future characteristics. Savulescu states we are morally obligated to treat and prevent diseases. This is viewed as a medical intervention because we are promoting the child’s health. With our advances in technology‚ he also believes we are morally obligated to engage in genetic enhancement
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want is world peace and to better their own country. There has to be a country willing to help other countries to achieve this goal of world peace especially‚ countries that are capable like the United States. The United States has a moral obligations to help other countries because we are the last superpower‚ we signed the United Charter‚ and President Obama has formally stated our country has obligation to help other countries.
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condition are poor and living in poverty. Sometimes they asked help from the citizens in the U.S. According to “I am my brother’s keeper. I am under a moral obligation to him‚” Eugene V. Debs‚ socialist who commented on unfairness of this maintains that moral obligation is a kind of human nature that everyone in the society should have. While this claim may be true in some situations‚ people should be able to make the decision of whether or not to help those in need. Moral obligation should be in
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Exegetical Peter Singer states that citizens of affluent nations are behaving immorally with the way they react to moral issues like helping those in need and our moral conceptual scheme needs to change. To do so‚ we need to be morally obligated to prevent bad things from happening if it does not require sacrificing something of comparable moral significance. His argument includes this principle where proximity or distance should not be taken into account when deciding whether to prevent something
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Should we help the poor? According to a study shown in a piece of Russian newspaper‚ the poor in China is going to account for more than 19 percent of all the Chinese. Thus‚ a heated discussion has been raised that whether we should help the poor. And in my opinion‚ we should help the poor‚ but we should help them rationally. Individually‚ we are supposed to help the poor out of virtue. And if so‚ we can fulfill our life more meaningfully. Since childhood‚ we have been taught that we should
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