The Singer Solution To World Poverty By Peter Singer

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Peter Singer states, from his essay “The Singer Solution to World Poverty”, that the best and only solution to world poverty is for people to give up all of the money that they use for things that are not necessary, in other words, their “wants”. The purpose of this essay is to encourage the reader to donate to the underprivileged people in the world. However, using force will not make anyone to donate money to the poor, and that is why I disagree with Singer. We need to find a decent way to convince individuals to donate and help the needy. The author’s use of exaggeration in situations, such as Bob’s and the child, is a way to play with our emotions to get us to believe in his “only solution”, and describe us as murderers. To add on, the