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elements-9017	Wendel, Paul	Overcoming Ignorance: The Case for a Moral Imperative to Combat Global Poverty	2008	9	.pdf	application/pdf	6103	345	64	Section four discusses Pogge's argument that affluent individuals need to change their moral mindset to see that combating world poverty is a moral imperative, not a mere preference. Singer uses an analogy of a small child drowning in a pond and a person choosing not to wade into the pond to save the child because he does not want to get his shoes and pants wet to criticize affluent na- tions for failing to give more internationally to alleviate global poverty: If we do this when people are in danger of dying of starva- tion and when there are agencies that can, with reasonable efficiency, turn our modest donations of money into lifesav- ingfood and basic medicines, how can we consider ourselves any better than the person who sees the child fall in the pond and walks on?xix The reasonable ease with which aid can be given interna- tionally on behalf of affluent individuals makes contribut- ing—in Singer's view—not just an act of charity, but an act of moral duty.	cache/elements-9017.pdf	txt/elements-9017.txt