Assignment:
1. For the purposes of Singer's argument, he makes a background assumption clear to the reader What is this background assumption?
- Suffering and death from lack of food, shelter, and medical attention is bad.
- What we normally think of as charity is actually a moral obligation.
- The way people in relatively affluent countries react to humanitarian crises cannot be justified.
- People are more likely to help those suffering in close proximity rather than those far away.
2. According to the Singer's Weak Principle, what would we be required to give up in order to prevent someone from starving to death?
- All of our personal resources, regardless of personal impact.
- Only those things which we personally determine we can do without.
- Personal resources until we ourselves are just above the level of starvation.
- Luxury resources, such as designer clothes or specialty coffee drinks.