Global Poverty and Racial Discrimination Flashcards
1
Q
What are the 2 cases considered by Peter Singer concerning poverty?
A
- Dora selling a kid to strangers for $1000 to buy a new TV set.
- Bob letting a child die in order to save his Bugatti.
2
Q
We are more prepared to spend on luxuries than…
A
To help those who may die without help.
3
Q
Ethics is like the Golden Rule according to Singer, because…
A
You must ask, how would yo like it if someone did this to you?
4
Q
Racism is viewed as a ___ force by Singer.
A
Evaluative.
5
Q
Racism as a evaluative force says that…
A
It is a practice judged to be wrong.
6
Q
Standard of Racial Discrimination
A
To use race as a basis for discrimination is arbitrarily to single out an irrelevant factor, no doubt because of a bias or prejudice against those of a different race.
7
Q
Why would the Nazis not be considered racist under the standard of racial discrimination suggested/
A
They discriminated to serve a purpose.
