Sunday, January 31, 2016

Who's Singing this Man's Praise?

The principle argument behind Singer's article is that people should work their hardest to help those in need. However, he takes a utilitarian perspective when he essentially suggests that people should keep their necessities to a minimum and donate any sort of excess to the poor. If everyone were donate their money to the poor than there would be no sort of differentiation among people Although, ideologically speaking this is a sound solution for the increasing poverty issue in the United States, realistically speaking this is not a practical solution. The most realistic solution is to likely create a coalition that progressively works on this problem in each individual state as a federal approach will likely be less organized. The best possible solution is keep each state working on a gradual solution to the problem of poverty.

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  1. I agree with you that Singer's idea of ending poverty is unrealistic. Interesting that you think that each state should be responsible for poverty in their state. Good post!

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