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Wholehearted choices and "morality as taxes" - Joe Carlsmith

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Reimagining Peter Singer's drowning child from the perspective of care rather than guilt.

Wholehearted choices and "morality as taxes" - Joe Carlsmith Wholehearted choices and “morality as taxes” Last updated: 12.14.2020 Published: 12.12.2020 Wholehearted choices and “morality as taxes” In Peter Singer’s classic thought experiment , you can save a drowning child, but only by ruining your clothes. Singer’s argument is that (a) you’re obligated to save the child, and that (b) many modern humans are in a morally analogous relationship to the world’s needy. (Note that on GiveWell’s numbers , the clothes in question need to cost thousands of dollars; but th

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