Advantages And Disadvantages Of Peter Singer

Peter singer use the ethical theory of consequentialism to make his argument why we should assist to help reduce absolute poverty in the world. The consequentialist theory holds that the consequences of our acts can be used as a basis to make a judgments about the rightness’s and wrongness’s of the act. Peter singer is make the argument that we are obligated to help fight poverty. Singer says that by not helping the absolute poor that we are killing them. The absolute poor are mostly people that live in third world countries. This people are not like the poor of the industrialized nations, who are poor relative to the rich. The absolute poor live in “countries with per capita income of under $200”.
Singer argues that by not giving more than we do, as people who live in the rich countries that we are letting the poor countries suffer from absolute poverty, with consequent malnutrition, ill …show more content…
The advantage of consequentialism is that it doesn’t asking people to be selfish and it’s not isolating nations from each other. The disadvantage is that you run into the collect action problem where each nation thinks the other is going to help the poor and at the end nobody helps the people that need the help. The advantage of Deontology is that it would create a public charity that everyone would be require to contribute equally because it’s important to the United Will of the society, that the ones that can’t take care of themselves are taken care of. The disadvantage is that it’s only for the citizens of the particular society and can’t be given to other nations. I think the theory that would be best to answer the question of helping the absolute poor is deontology if we could make an exception to help other societies and not just our own, because deontology solves the problem of collective action problem by creating a universal taxes and requiring everyone to contribute