Week 16: Singer vs O'Neill on Famine

 

Discussion Activity

Split into two teams. Hold a debate on the following motion:

This house believes that we are morally obliged to give as much money as we can to alleviate poverty and suffering.

The proposing team should read Singer's 'Famine, Affluence and Morality' carefully in order to put forward the motion and marshal arguments in support of it.

The opposing team should read O'Neill's 'Kantian Approaches to Some Famine Problems', think through arguments arguments against the motion, and find an alternative response to the problem of famine.