Global Justice Exam

Front 1

absolute deprivation

Back 1

individual well-being falls short of specified level of goods
e.g: nutrition, edu, life expectancy)

Front 2

relative deprivation

Back 2

individual well being falls short relative to what others have
measuring inequality not absolute suffering

e.g) less than 1.2 average income

Front 3

Singer's argument

Back 3

go for the absolute poverty level

Front 4

outline of singer's argument:
moral responsibility

Back 4

if a person can prevent something bad from happening, without sacrificing something of comparable moral importance, then you should do it

Front 5

singer's description of what "something bad" is

Back 5

suffering and death from lack of food, shelter, and medicine

SD

Front 6

Singer on giving up luxuries

Back 6

sacrifice of conveniences, comforts, and luxuries does not count as "moral compromise"

should give it up to prevent bad

Front 7

Singer's proposal for getting rid of SD

Back 7

donate all the money that one would otherwise spend on luxuries to human relief

Front 8

objection: "But no on is doing that!"

singer's response

Back 8

other's morla failures dont excuse your own

Front 9

objection: nobody else will do that!

singers response

Back 9

get real, adjust to motivate
push selves
dont let others decide
push hard and will get good results

Front 10

what would it cost to end SD

Back 10

$19 bill: get rid of starvation and malnutrition

$15: water and sanitation

$23: reverse spread of AIDS and Malaria

$57 bill--> $66/ year per person

Front 11

objection: i shouldnt give more than $66

singer response

Back 11

true premise, false conclusion
not everyone can give $66
should be giving all excess

not wanting to give more is not comparable to ending SD

Front 12

objection: I have a right to private property

Back 12

private property invented so that we could improve avoid SD, not promote it

locke: poor people are entitled to rich people's surplus (1st treatsie of govt)

Front 13

individual responsibility or collective

Back 13

singer say individual

this is too hard to do--more effective if collective
can motivate, burden is less on each indiviudal