Peter Singer (quokk.au)
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[–] 6 points 2 weeks ago

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Peter Singer

OP can start with a proper text alternative.
No way someone unable to read an image will get the content, and search engines won't find it by missing text, either.

Not cheating accessibility & editing a post to correct that is definitely in OP's power.
Nothing of comparable moral importance is lost by doing so.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 weeks ago*

    ordinary people are evil is a great video about that paper by Singer.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

    comparable moral importance

    Therein lies the problem. Who is doing the comparing?

    Yall should probably be aware that this guy is foundational to the technosalvationist philosophy that SV bros use to justify setting the planet on fire in order to summon AI Jesus.

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    And also he’s a eugenicist.

    I feel like maybe I should leave some links.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 weeks ago

    Love his work! He inspired me to take a pledge to donate 10% of my income to effective charities: https://www.givingwhatwecan.org/pledge

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  • [–] 3 points 2 weeks ago

    Nice one!

    I'd not heard of philosopher Peter Singer before, and I love that I got a nice little introduction here. 🤍

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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago

    Isn't this the guy that said that humans are inherently evil because people don't donate to charities? "Comparable moral importance". Who dictates morale importance lmfao?

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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago

    The billionaire delimma is more like what if the bad thing directly benefited me, should I stop it from happening?

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago

    But what about the stock market?

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago

    This haunts me every day

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