Question
This thinker claimed that there is no moral difference between saving a drowning child or a Bengali person ten thousand miles away in his essay “Famine, Affluence, and Morality.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this thinker, who used the argument from marginal cases and principle of equal consideration to argue certain beings deserved rights in a 1975 book.
ANSWER: Peter Singer (The book is Animal Liberation.)
[10e] The principle of equal consideration, which Singer used to argue for animal rights, is based on this ethical theory founded by Jeremy Bentham that prioritizes achieving the greatest happiness for the greatest number.
ANSWER: utilitarianism
[10m] Peter Singer’s book The Most Good You Can Do argues in favor of a contemporary movement named for the “effective” form of this concept that proposes using science and reason to benefit as many people as possible.
ANSWER: effective altruism [prompt on EA]
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Summary
| 2024 ACF Fall at Cornell | fall | Y | 8 | 18.75 | 100% | 63% | 25% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Ohio State | fall | Y | 8 | 17.50 | 88% | 63% | 25% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Washington | fall | Y | 6 | 21.67 | 100% | 83% | 33% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Georgia | fall | Y | 10 | 13.00 | 80% | 40% | 10% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at North Carolina | fall | Y | 9 | 16.67 | 89% | 33% | 44% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Claremont Colleges | fall | Y | 5 | 26.00 | 100% | 100% | 60% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Rutgers | fall | Y | 8 | 18.75 | 88% | 75% | 25% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Illinois | fall | Y | 9 | 23.33 | 100% | 89% | 44% |
Data
| Columbia A | Maryland B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Penn A (DII) | Columbia B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Rowan A (DII) | Columbia J (DII) | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Penn B (DII) | Fordham A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Maryland A (DII) | Rutgers B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| NYU B | Lehigh A (UG) | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Bard A (UG) | Princeton A (UG) | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Rutgers A (UG) | Lehigh B (DII) | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |