2. Questions:
 Suppose someone’s family income is $200,000 per year and,
moved by the plight of distant needy strangers they have read
about, they give $50 dollars to a global disaster relief agency. Now
say they to go to the Phillies’ game. But instead they could have
donated another $50 dollars to charity, and another. The choice
problem reiterates, and each time they find the money they
could spend on themselves it would instead do more good if
channeled to distant needy strangers, until they get down to a
monthly income such that their next dollar, spent on themselves,
would do more good than they could do by way of preventing
suffering by donating to poverty and famine relief.
 Would you agree that you would have to follow this same
process to live morally, or does it not have to be so
extreme?

3.  Do you agree with Singer that if you would save
the drowning child and ruin a pair of new shoes,
you should also be willing to do donate up to
marginal utility to famine relief funds? … Or can
you feel OK doing one and not the other?

4.  Where do you think the cut-off is in terms of the
amount? (How much should we reasonably
donate? A certain percent?)

5.  Do charity relief projects really do good in the
long run? Or should we focus on long term
alternatives like limiting population growth and
educating people on birth control practices?

6. Ryo Ishiwaka
 He is also only 19 years old, very close in age to
most of us, do you think this is something you
would be able to do? Considering it is only the
second year of your professional career?
 Would Singer say he is doing all that he can?

7.  Do you agree that we need both care and justice to
have a decent ethical world? Why?

8.  Do you think if people adopted Baier’s care
morality and justice that they would be more
likely to follow Singer’s principle of charity as a
moral duty?

9.  Baier also talks about the importance of
relationships between parents and their children
and what it does for the ethics of care. She even
asks “how will men ever develop an
understanding of the “ethics of care” if they
continue to be shielded or kept from that
experience of caring for a dependent child?” Do
you think it is realistic to believe that men could
not develop ethics of care without caring for a
child?

10.  Do you think that if such an ethics of care were
implemented and practiced by majority of the
population and taken into consideration in law that
the court system and juries would be more lenient to
certain crimes? Since people would be theoretically
more connected to others and would be more prone to
“feel” for them, is it likely that more people would
walk away innocent from court?
 Consider the example of stealing to feed one’s family.
 Or consider the example of Dexter (serial killer who
kills murderers).