Save You

Are you a good person? A person of morals and values? An ethical person? Yes? If so, then: How much are you willing to give up? How much can you give up? How much will you? Regardless of your answers, what remains is that you are affluent enough to give. Philosopher provocateur Peter Singer uncomfortably highlights these questions in The Life You Can Save: How to do Your Part to End World Poverty (New York: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2010.). Singer’s goals are "to challenge you to think…

The Life You Can Save is a novel published by Peter Singer in 2009. Singer tries to get his readers to consider doing something more to help others. He brings up the question of what obligation do we owe to those in extreme poverty. He has several scenarios laid out each different but mostly having to do with sacrificing something of yours or someone’s life. One scenario he brings up in the beginning is that you’re running late to work and you see a toddler flailing about in the water. Most…

members do not deserve to get judgement placed upon them because they will do anything in their power to stick together through the good and bad. The true meaning of family devotion is shown throughout the short stories “Silver Water”, “The Life You Save May Be Your Own”, as well as in the everyday lives of individuals around the…

The article “That Camera Won't Save You! The Spectacular Consumption of Police Violence” By Armond R. Towns talks about how the police system is broken and even if you record a cop doing wrong then it probably won't help you out because police “always” do the right thing. It states that even if you have evidence of a police doing the wrong thing then the police will most likely still be able to work at his job and have no punishment. The first word I chose was the word media. I chose this…

The Life You Can Save, by Peter Singer, there are many different libertarian arguments against giving a large sum of a household income to 3rd world nations. These arguments are mainly given by students because of a study given by Scott Seider. Scott Seider was “researching how adolescents think about obligations to others” (Singer 25). The results from the research show that the students do not agree with the utilitarian ideas suggested by Singer. In chapter 3 of, The Life You Can Save,…

Should We Save Them? Around 800 people try to climb Mount Everest every year, but over 230 people have died on the mountain. In 1953, Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay became the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest. Since then, almost 4,000 other people have tried to do the same. Not everyone makes it to the peak though, but some people’s lives are saved by helicopters, rescue teams and other rescue services. People do not have the right to rescue services when they…

Save as Many as You Ruin - Simon Van Booy Life is always changing and sometimes we forget that. We forget to live in the moment and feel the things around us. Events are followed by new events and some of these are either little things that effects our everyday or big turning-points that will define us the rest of our life. Sometimes we for-get to feel the moment and take the chances. Life is when you remember the little things, and starts to appreciate these things. Stop the negative thoughts…

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O’Conner’s “The Life You Save May Be Your Own,” and Guy Maupassant’s “The Necklace” when the authors build up an ironic climax with subtle irony occurring throughout their stories. In O’Connor’s “The Life You Save May Be Your Own” the irony begins in the title.…

Save as Many as You Ruin is a short story written by Simon Van Booy in 2007 Every action, that every person takes, has a consequence. Some can have minimal effect of change; some can be life changing. When life gives you lemons, you make lemonade. When life gives you a second chance to save your lifestyle, you seize it to undo the actions done, that has led to its consequences. The main character, Gerard, has been given a second chance to make his future the best it can be, despite the given…