Peter Singer’s startling analogy asks us to consider sacrificing our consumerist values in favour of famine relief for refugees. His thoughts expressed in 1971 in a journal article ‘Famine, Affluence and Morality’ are a call for those who can afford to make acceptable sacrifices to do so to relieve the suffering of others in distant famine zones.
He argues that buying clothes, not out of necessity, but to keep up with fashion trends, could reasonably be sacrificed in favour of making a donation to relieve the suffering of those facing starvation. Acknowledging a moral obligation to relieve the suffering of our fellow human beings no matter how distant is central to Singer’s argument.
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