Peter Singer (thelemmy.club)
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[–] 6 points 3 days 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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  • [–] 3 points 3 days 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 3 days 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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  • [–] 4 points 3 days ago*

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

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  • [–] 2 points 3 days 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 3 days 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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  • [–] 1 point 3 days ago

    But what about the stock market?

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  • [–] 1 point 3 days ago

    This haunts me every day

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