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Book: The Most Good You Can Do: How Effective Altruism Is Changing Ideas About Living Ethically
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  1. Peter Singer _ The Most Good You Can Do: How

    Everyone has boundaries. If you find yourself doing something that makes you bitter, it is time to reconsider. Is
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  2. Peter Singer _ The Most Good You Can Do: How

    If we want to encourage people to do the most good, we should not focus on whether what they are doing involves a sacrifice, in the sense that it makes them less happy. We should instead focus on whether what makes them happy involves increasing the well-being of others. If we wish, we can redefine the terms egoism and altruism in this way, so that they refer to whether people's interests include a strong concern for others-it if does, then let's call them altruists, whether or not acting on this concern for others involves a gain or loss for the "altruist.
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  3. Peter Singer _ The Most Good You Can Do: How

    If a flock of chickens is without water on a hot day, and all you have to do to prevent them from dying slowly and painfully is turn on a tap, you ought to turn it on. If to do so you have to walk a few extra steps in shoes that pinch your little toe, you ought to walk those few extra steps.
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  4. Peter Singer _ The Most Good You Can Do: How

    There are plenty of violent people, but for any randomly selected person today the chances of meeting a violent death at the hands of his or her fellow humans is lower now than it has ever been in human history.
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  5. Peter Singer _ The Most Good You Can Do: How

    Target groups you care about that other people mostly don't, and take advantage of strategies other people are biased against using.
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  6. Peter Singer _ The Most Good You Can Do: How

    To forestall misunderstandings: there is value in creating and enjoying art. To many people, drawing, painting, sculpting, singing, and playing a musical instrument are vital forms of self-expression, and their lives would be poorer without them. People produce art in all cultures and in all kinds of situations, even when they cannot satisfy their basic physical needs. Other people enjoy seeing art. In a world in which everyone had enough to eat, basic health care, adequate sanitation, and a place at school for each of their children, there would be no problem about donating to museums and other institutions that offer an opportunity to see original works of art to all who wish to see them, and {more important, in my view} the opportunity to create art to those who lack opportunities to express themselves in this way. Sadly, we don't live in that world, at least not yet.
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  7. Peter Singer _ The Most Good You Can Do: How

    Our best hope for the future is not to get people to think of all humanity as family-that's impossible. It lies, instead, in an appreciation of the fact that, even if we don't empathize with distant strangers, their lives have the same value as the lives of those we love.
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  8. Peter Singer _ The Most Good You Can Do: How

    Effective altruists, as we have seen, need not be utilitarians, but they share a number of moral judgments with utilitarians. In particular, they agree with utilitarians that, other things being equal, we ought to do the most good we can.
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  9. Peter Singer _ The Most Good You Can Do: How

    Perhaps it is not love that motivates effective altruists but empathy, the ability to put oneself in the position of others and identify with their feelings or emotions. Writers like de Waal and Jeremy Rifkin have seized on the idea of empathy as, to use de Waal's words, "the grand theme of our time."4 Rifkin believes that civilization has spread the reach of empathy beyond the family and the community so that it covers all of humankind.
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  10. Peter Singer _ The Most Good You Can Do: How

    There is no sense of loss in this transcendence of the quest to satisfy desires that previously seemed so important or of the pleasures that came from their satisfaction, for enlightenment involves detachment from one's desires.
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  11. Peter Singer _ The Most Good You Can Do: How

    Being a bystander to suffering is not an option.
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  12. Peter Singer _ The Most Good You Can Do: How

    Ishq and Mushq.
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