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Peter Singer: Effective Compassion: 3 key ideas
The core ideas of Peter Singer: Effective Compassion, each in under a minute, written in our own words. Want the full depth? Get the book.
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- IDEA 1 OF 3
The drowning child
Singer asks: if you would ruin your clothes to save a child drowning nearby, why not give to save distant lives?
Distance does not reduce moral duty.
- IDEA 2 OF 3
Equal consideration of interests
Suffering counts equally whoever experiences it, including animals.
This underlies animal welfare arguments.
- IDEA 3 OF 3
Give effectively
Choose causes where money does the most good, based on evidence.
Compassion should be smart as well as sincere.
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