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Important Question
Have you ever gone to the grocery store, and got to the checkout line and was asked if you would like to donate to charity?
I will explain how Garrett Cullity argues that Peter Singer's Severe Demand should be rejected, and although it is an obligation to save a life, we should do it at a moderate and reasonable expense.
1. Singer's Severe Demand
2. Why should we be concerned to help them?
3. Contradiction of "The Severe Demand"
4. Cullity's Moderate Demand
1. Start the argument by taking the opposite of your stance
2. Show that it will ultimately lead to a contridiction
3. Then lead to your current stance
Contribute to aid agencies in increments of time and money that is large enough until there are no more lives in need of saving
We should live an altruistically focused life...
Why is it wrong to NOT help somebody at a small personal cost?
Our lives are a means to fufillment gained through life- enhancing goods
Contradition of the "Severe Demand"
A small donation is equivalent to saving a life...
Cullity's Moderate Demand
Instead, we should contribute to aid agencies in increments of time and money large enough until:
Another person's interest in obtaining what is morally wrong to have is NOT a good enough reason for being morally obligated to help another individual have morally impermissble life.
Therefore, Severe Demand must be rejected.
Conclusions
Singer’s argument that we have a severe demand to help the impoverished and should live an altruistically focused life, should be rejected.
Cullity's rejection stems from a contradiction that an individual living an altruistic-focused life and helping another achieve a non-altruistic-focused life is a huge contradiction.
Instead, Cullity’s argument is that that we have a Moderate Demand to help the impoverished without making a sacrifice that would make us worse off.
It's Your Turn!
Now it is time to give your opinion about the topic.
Do you believe that Cullity has a valid point that we should give what we can instead giving up everything to help somebody achieve something that they too morally should not have?