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Peter Singer

Peter Singer, Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University, is author of the forthcoming Doing the Most Good.

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A minimally acceptable ethical life involves using a substantial part of one’s spare resources to make the world a better place.

Peter Singer

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The most striking passage in these responses is Larissa MacFarquhar’s description of effective altruists being moved by the suffering of anonymous people, or by suffering in itself. This should dispel the myth...
Peter Singer
Effective altruists rely more on reason than emotion.
Peter Singer

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