Ch. 8

The whole 20 pages talked about our moral responisibility to things that don't directly affect us, but that are going on around us. He makes a good point though. Is it our responsibility to know attrocities are happening and help them? If we don't how do we deal with that morally? It was a long passage that had one main point to it...a valid point and i find my self agreeing.

"Ch. 8 Famine, Affluence, and Morality"

"..if it is in our power to prevent something bad from happening, without thereby sacrificing anything of comparable moral importance, we ought morallly, to do it"

First Principal pages: 365-367
I'm not sure if i agree with this statement. He is saything that if it is in our power to stop something from happening, we should do it because that is the moral thing to do. I agree to an extent. What if that "something bad" will in the end be something good? There are different stipulations to what he is saying.
The first principal he makes is that if he is walking by a pond and sees his neighors child drowning, he is going t0 save that child instead of just walking by. He relates that statement to Bengal because though we may never see the people suffering, it is still as if we are walking by that pond, seeing the child dying, and we keep on walking.