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Peter Unger

In order to lessen the number of people who’ll die very prematurely, you needn’t cause anyone any serious loss, and you certainly needn’t cause anybody to lose her life. Indeed, all you need do is send money to UNICEF, or to OXFAM, or, for that matter, to CARE, whose address you can also know:

CARE
151 Ellis Street, N.E.
Atlanta, GA 30303

From this chapter’s first paragraph, most get what, for the bulk of our adult lives, is the most important moral message we need.

Peter Unger, Living High and Letting Die: Our Illusion of Innocence, New York, 1996, p. 84