Q&A: Peter Singer
Peter Singer
Question
Hi Michi, what do you think of Peter Singer’s claim that anyone who doesn’t donate most of his money to charity is evil?
Answer
My view is that anyone who says that is an idiot.
Discussion on Answer
Why idiot or psychotic? Are you sure you know what exactly he said?
There is some logic to it. Think about how the West makes most of its money by robbing people in weaker countries,
so the white person needs to return to those countries the plunder they stole.
To the last commenter: you don’t know what you’re talking about. There were ugly phenomena, but the whole idea of growth is precisely opposed to the zero-sum-game way of thinking (“a pit is not filled from its own dirt”) that you are expressing.
Are you sure it’s specifically “idiot” and not “psychotic”?