ethics & morality
the drowning child
a shallow pond, a ruined pair of shoes, and a line of reasoning that may follow you home.
Peter Singer built the most uncomfortable argument in modern ethics out of an ordinary walk past a pond. It begins with a case almost no one resists, and ends somewhere most people very much want to. Follow it scene by scene, answering honestly, and see where you get off.
further reading
- famine, affluence, and morality original paper
- famine, affluence, and morality wikipedia