Hunger

Issues

Lots of people including innocent children die of starvation each day. Do we have any responsibility to help them?

Singer, P. (1997). The drowning child and the expanding circle. New Internationalist, 289.
Some arguments against donation: http://www.thelifeyoucansave.org/learnmore/commonobjectionstogiving.aspx
Andre, C., & Velasquez, M. (1992). World hunger: A Moral Response. Issues in Ethics, 5(1).
Hunger in Hong Kong: http://www.oxfam.org.hk/en/news_1630.aspx
http://www.hughlafollette.com/papers/World.Hunger.htm – Hugh LaFollette (2003) “World Hunger” in Blackwell Companion to Applied Ethics edited by Ray Frey and Christopher Heath Wellman, Blackwell.
http://www.worldometers.info; http://www.stopthehunger.com – Two websites displaying statistics about the world in a “real-time” format See the figures related to starvation, food spending, obesity and food wastage.
http://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/food-security World bank website on the food crisis.
http://bostonreview.net/forum/peter-singer-logic-effective-altruism – Peter Singer discussing effective altruism and responses from commentators.
https://www.utilitarian.net/singer/by/1972—-.htm?utm_source=mandiner&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=mandiner_201603 – An earlier article by Peter Singer.

A short video about how we ought to save lives based on Singer’s thought experiment:

Singer mentioned at the beginning of his talk a tragic accident in China shown in the following video. It raises a question about whether we have a moral duty to help those in need. WARNING: The video contains graphic and disturbing images.