Delores Prescott
The Singer solution to World Poverty
Singer uses emotional blackmail to appeal to his readers by using guilt and condemnation .
He forces his readers to make a chioce : the life of a young child in a third world country or the continuation of living an affluent lifestyle of vacations , new clothes and dining out .
He refers to his character Bob 's choice to save his Bogatti vintage car over saving the life of a child being ran down by a train , as the normal American reaction . He invokes guilt, by condemning the normal actions of eating out in restaurants and buying a new suit as unnecessary . He says why do we need these extras , when a child' s life is at risk .
Singer continue to appeal to his writer's sense of whats really is the right and wrong thing to do by using the example of a woman's realization to return the money for a child she sold, after she found out the child was going to be used as an organ donor . He adds, that even though we see this woman's act as a moral gesture , by we not contributing to the different organizations that supports these countries , we are encouraging the people who buys and sells these organ . This makes us just as bad a person .
Singer went on to say that we need to donate 10% of our income to this cause, as the decent human thing to do . We at least need to donate at least $200. which is the cost to save one child's life .
He adds to the human guilt by including the numbers of the organizations that collects and supports these countries. We have no excuse . We are now informed , so whats stopping the American citizen from donating and being better than those who looked aside from the" Nazi Atrocites" .
He continues to attack the american citizen moral values to say if all american did their part and respond financially to this world crisis of saving lives , he and those who do, will not have to make such large sacrifices .
Silver clearly, impacts his readers to maybe take time to do some self evaluation of their livestyle and to question if going out to dinner or taking that well deserved vacation or buying that new suit is more important than saving a life ? Should we as Americans be so concerned with all of the world crisis , albeit poverty , prostitution , freedom to learn etc and allow our way of living to deteriorate, by depriving ourselves of some of the aforementioned luxuries, that does contribute to a healthy mind and body ?
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