What is it about?
Peter Singer has been writing about global poverty for decades. His solution is that we should all give a large portion of our income to alleviate severe poverty. However, this requires large organisation in order to be realised. This gives them power over the fundamental interests of very vulnerable people. It raises questions of justice.
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Why is it important?
People often assume that when power is wielded with good intentions it does not raise problems of justice. However, this article shows that transnational philanthropy dominates the global poor. It does not matter if it is benevolent domination or not, because domination is not compatible with respecting the moral agency of the poor.
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It is easy to give money to charity and think you are doing something good. However, by supporting organisations that often make life and death decisions with little input from people in extreme poverty we implicate ourselves in potential injustices.
Dr Gwilym David Blunt
City University
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This page is a summary of: Justice in assistance: a critique of the ‘Singer Solution’, Journal of Global Ethics, September 2015, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/17449626.2015.1055780.
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