RT Article
T1 How Much for the Child?
JF Ethical theory and moral practice
VO 16
IS 1
SP 189
OP 204
A1 Barry, Christian
A1 Øverland, Gerhard
A2 Øverland, Gerhard
LA English
YR 2013
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1785697153
AB In this paper we explore what sacrifices you are morally required to make to save a child who is about to die in front of you. It has been argued that you would have very demanding duties to save such a child (or any adult who is in similar circumstance through no fault of their own, for that matter), and some examples have been presented to make this claim seem intuitively correct. Against this, we argue that you do not in general have a moral requirement to bear more than moderate cost to save even a child who is just in front of you. Moreover, we explain why you have a much more demanding moral requirement in certain cases by appealing to the notions of undue risk and cost sharing.
K1 Peter Singer
K1 Global Poverty
K1 Duties of assistance
DO 10.1007/s10677-011-9325-4