Philinomics

What’s wrong with society today? How many issues can we actually see? From the starving in third world countries to the drowning in Houston Texas and India whose lives have been turned upside down in a night. We don’t have to feel guilty though of course, for we are merely normal people who lead normal lives that don’t interfere with theirs. We’re first world and they’re third world. We can’t make a change so what’s the point, right? Well let me ask you, as did Peter Singer, would you save the life of a drowning child? What if you had on expensive shoes and a watch that you didn’t have time to take off? You would? Are you sure? Well, why don’t you? UNICEF recently published figures saying 5.9 million children or so die every single year in impoverished countries. They were proud of that figure. I was not. See, they were proud of the fact that they managed to control such figures from 12 million down to 5.9. My question is why isn’t it close to 0? The reason is us. You and...