![]() ![]() If you don’t act to save the child, he will probably drown. There is no one besides you around to help. Singer begins the first chapter of his book with the following scenario: Suppose that on your way to work you see a toddler flailing about in a pond. Also, unless otherwise noted, all page references are to The Life You Can Save. As is almost inevitable when summarizing a book of any appreciable length, I will fail to discuss some sections and even chapters, in order to devote more attention to those parts of the book that I regard as the most important. To make the connections between the different ideas and subjects easier to perceive, I will proceed topically, which means that the order in which I discuss certain things is sometimes different from the order in which they occur in the book. In this article I provide a synopsis of Peter Singer’s book The Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty, in which he tries to get his readers to consider, or reconsider, the question of what their obligations are to those who are trapped in extreme poverty. The Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty. X Bookmark A Synopsis of Singer’s The Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty ![]()
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