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[nikle]

'In 1972, Australian philosopher Peter Singer wrote the essay "Famine, Affluence and Morality." In it, he describes a person walking past a shallow pond and noticing a child drowning. Since saving the child requires little more than getting your pants muddy, he argues, we have a moral duty to save that child. Singer takes it a step further: "Should i consider that i am less obliged to pull the drowning child out of the pond if on looking around i see other people, no further away than i am, who have also noticed the child but are doing nothing?"'

taken from Adbusters: journal of the mental environment.