Global Economic Justice

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. Garrett Hardin, in his article "Lifeboat Ethics," argues that

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. According to Hardin, the fundamental error of "sharing ethics" is that

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. On the proposal that we need to establish world food banks to help those who are in need, Hardin would say that

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. According to Singer, thinking ethically is all about

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. How does Singer respond to the objection that people have a right to spend the money they earn on themselves?

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. Singer argues that developing nations are harming poor nations by

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. What is the main reason why Arthur doesn't think that the poor have a right to aid from the affluent?

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. The principle Arthur calls "the greater moral evil rule"says that

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. Which of the following is an example of a "right of noninterference" according to Arthur?

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. The annual death-toll from poverty related causes is, according to Pogge,

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. On Pogge's view, affluent citizens are harming the poor by

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. One kind of externality imposed on the world's poor by the economic activity of wealthy nation is

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. Ashford's article is meant to address a particular paralysis in the face of

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. Ashford defines a structural human rights violation as

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. Ashford thinks that the right test of whether or not legal and economic structures are minimally just is to see whether or not

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. The question of content, as it pertains to the duty of charity, is "How strong is one's obligation to help those in need when doing so conflicts with other reasons for action?"

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. An international food bank, according to Hardin, is really just a one-way transfer device for moving wealth from rich countries to poor.

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. Hardin's primary complaint about "the sharing ethics" is that it is unfair.

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. Singer argues that the desires of others count more than our own.

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. Singer claims that developing nations with rich deposits are always better off than otherwise comparable nations without those resources.

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. Arthur denies that our moral code gives any weight to the greater moral evil principle.

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. It is rational to support a moral code, says Arthur, only if that code is able to gain the support of almost everyone.

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. Pogge argues that we do not have a duty to change the global economic order in light of world poverty.

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. On Ashford's view, our duty to donate to aid agencies arises from the failure of a more basic duty to change the structures that underlie poverty.

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. On Ashford's view, backup duties are generally not morally urgent.

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. According to the World Bank, 1.4 billion of the world's population lives in extreme _________, which it defines as not having enough income to meet one's most basic needs.

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. The duty of _________ (or charity) is, roughly, the duty to help those in dire need.

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. According to Hardin, in thinking about hunger and poverty as moral issues, it is useful to think of them in terms of the metaphor of the _________.

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. A social system is stable, according to Hardin, only if it is insensitive to _________.

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. Singer states, "The fact that we tend to favor our families, communities, and countries may explain our failure to save the lives of the poor beyond those boundaries, but it does not justify that failure from a(n)_________ perspective."

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. Singer describes moral _________ as the view we should accept that everyone is entitled to follow his or her own (moral) beliefs.

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. Arthur says that negative, unlike positive, rights are _________; which ones you have depends on what you are.

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. Ignoring past guilt, according to Arthur, shows a lack of regard for _________.

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. On Pogge's view, many citizens of wealthy countries bear the _________ for the current global institutional arrangements.

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. Ashford thinks that some positive duties, like the duty to provide means of subsistence, are also duties of justice, owed to each person in virtue of his or her _________.

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