The Singer Solution to Word Poverty Summary

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In the Article "The Singer Solution To World Poverty" the author Peter Singer argues that there is no reason as to why americans do not donate the money they spend on luxuries and unnecessary thing in their life to needy organizations. Singer suggests americans stop using their money to buy luxuries and donate it to all types of charities. He provides two examples to persuade the reader to do so. The first one was from a brazilian film, a woman named Dora all she had to do was take a homeless child to a family that wanted to adopt him for one thousand dollars. After she had taken the child to the family she was told he was too old and now will be killed for organ transplants. Dora then decided to take the boy back and give back the money. The second example is about a man named Bob who has a Bugatti. The value of his car increased over then years and would ensure Bob a stable life after his retirement. One day Bob finds himself in a situation where he could save the life of a boy who was in the way of train tracks, but in order to do that he would have to sacrifice his car. If he were to not save the boy he car would be unharmed. Bob decided not to sacrifice his car, he has no remorse and will enjoy the car for the rest of his life. As someone is reading this story they would agree that Dora made the better choice. It was selfless, and the right thing to do where as Bob chose the selfish option and did the wrong thing. Singers objective was to show readers bigger examples of what they are doing by not donating towards charity and just blowing their money on unnecessary

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