Singer's Theory To Resist The Global Poor

Singer has two main premises on what we should do when it comes to assisting the global poor and these principles should be applied into our lives. There are two theories which he uses which are the strong and weak premises in which are guides of some sorts of what she we do to assist the global poor. There are concerns about Singer’s theory due to way he approaches his premises and he may at times be implementing to many harsh requirements for an individual to follow completely due to the ways each premises is written.

The first premise which is the weak theory of Singer has an issue when it comes to when are morally obligated assisting the global poor. The issue is with the statement is that when he states “If it is in our power to prevent …show more content…
Singer’s statement for the strong theory is “I begin with the assumption that suffering and death from lack of food, shelter, and medical care are bad.” This is where some truth comes to the idea that no human being should be suffering from the three things he mentioned but the idea that it should be related to his weak premise is too much. If you agree with the first premise that Singer proposes then you are forced to agree in the weak premise and it allows you to be motivated to do what is morally correct. In the case of Singer’s is that we will have to donate the money to the global organization due to the ideas that even if we are suffering but the suffering isn’t dangerous and the idea that you will have to donate that money. It seems that John Arthur as well pointed out flaws with the issue and brought ideas the questioned Singer’s theories. One of Arthur 's theory is entitlement in which asks the question if individuals are entitled to the resources you have. Arthur’s theory allows us to decide whether the global poor needs our resources and also we did not made a formal statement that me and those individuals agreed upon. If their was no agreement then those individuals do not have the right to our resources and if we didn 't do it then it doesn’t all them to use our resources at all.

As we noticed the theory of assisting the global poor has various demands to each individual to conform to. The theory of assisting the poor is great but with the demands and the issue that we have to global poor all the time doesn’t have positive effects at times to the individual. The theory focuses on societies who are developed and doesn’t pose the question whether those who are global poor should also give