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10351902 No.10351902 [Reply] [Original]

Um, why are you buying that book instead of donating the money to third worlders?

>> No.10352002

>>10351902
It's more ethical to provide compensation to people who did something than people who did not.

>> No.10352008

But I am a third worlder

>> No.10352041

>>10352002
this.

Furthermore, if you have any belief in your community, county, state, or country, it would be better to spend your money on a service or product produced there, further stimulating production as this service provider or product maker has extra resources to spend further (or create more products with).

Alternatively, given the miserable state of charity organizations and the low rates of actual proceeds to their cause, you COULD find your local fraudulent organization and personally finance their quasi-criminal operation

>> No.10352057

>>10351902

>buy charity
>homeless man with single digit IQ lives for 1 more useless minute

or

>buy book
>use its knowledge to expand my mind
>use my smarts to become a great world leader
>use my power to end inequality and disease and poverty and all ill in the world

>> No.10352064
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10352064

>get on bus in australia
>hear two nerd soyboys with valley girl inflections talking about "philosophy"
>probably in university
>"peter singer is really good, he's really smart"

>> No.10352556

>>10351902
>donate to charity
>homeless man gets a meal for a day
>elite get richer and more powerful

>> No.10352607

>>10351902
Because the lives of third worlders hold no value to me.

>> No.10353328

>>10352041
>charity orginazations are generally bad, so this guy who readily admits so and recommends charities that are actually effective is wrong

>> No.10353342

glad singer is getting his comeuppance. has anyone in any of these threads unironically tried to defend him

>> No.10353354
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10353354

based singer btfoing retards and worthless fetuses

the future will be brown with vigorous black men

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10353391

>>10353342
>getting roasted by NEETs on /lit/
>his comeuppance

>> No.10353412

>>10353328
yes, bad for markets, but not because
>charity orginazations are generally bad

>> No.10353424

Ever since I discovered Peter Singer was a Jew I have become far less guilty about opting for Rights-based ethical theories rather than (((Utilitarianism))), even though the latter could conceivably justify the holocaust.

>> No.10353430
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10353430

>>10353424
Virtue ethics is the huwite choice

>> No.10353438

>>10351902
Because books hold value.

>> No.10353447

>>10351902
I'm from the third world and i see how it is living in poor conditions
Still, wouldn't donate money