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  2. Famine, Affluence, and Morality - Wikipedia

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    Singer introduces the "drowning child" argument or drowning child analogy. According to Singer, inaction is clearly immoral if a child is drowning in a shallow pond and someone can save it but chooses not to; [2] nor does placing greater geographical distance between the person in need and the potential helper reduce the latter's moral ...

  3. The Life You Can Save - Wikipedia

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    Singer argues that it is obvious that an adult ought to save a child from drowning unless that individual is risking something as valuable as the child's life. Singer points out that as many as 27,000 children die every day from poverty that could be easily and cheaply helped by existing charities (see also List of preventable causes of death ...

  4. Peter Singer - Wikipedia

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    Peter Albert David Singer AC FAHA (born 6 July 1946) is an Australian moral philosopher who is Emeritus Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University. Singer's work specialises in applied ethics , approaching the subject from a secular , utilitarian perspective.

  5. Effective altruism - Wikipedia

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    The drowning child analogy in Singer's essay provoked philosophical debate. In response to a version of Singer's drowning child analogy, [ 47 ] philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah in 2006 asked whether the most effective action of a man in an expensive suit, confronted with a drowning child, would not be to save the child and ruin his suit—but ...

  6. Mother Accused of Drowning Daughter in Tub After Argument ...

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    Giselle Glover was allegedly held underwater by her mother, Kelsey Glover, police say

  7. Officer saves missing 3-year-old child from potential ...

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    Body-cam video shows an Indiana police officer gently rescue a child from a pool after the 3-year-old went missing from a Fort Wayne home.

  8. Chilling video shows hotel worker rescue drowning toddler ...

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    A 3-year-old Florida boy was rescued by hotel employees after he nearly drowned in the resort's hot tub while his mother was under the influence.

  9. Duty to rescue - Wikipedia

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    These would justify cases of rescue and in fact make such rescue a duty even between strangers. They explain why philosopher Peter Singer suggests that if one saw a child drowning and could intervene to save him, they should do so, if the cost is moderate to themselves. Damage to their clothing or shoes or how late it might make them for a ...

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