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Letters
Letters
The Art of Kraft • Family Fallacies • Enhancing Tallis • Spuriously Anti-Kanty • It’s Obvious? • What’s The Evidence?
The Art of Kraft
DEAR EDITOR: Sometimes the search for simplicity and consistency can mislead us. Robert Kraft says that “giving cannot be an ethical imperative; otherwise poor people who cannot give will be unethical. Ethical behaviour must be a possibility for everyone regardless of circumstances.” Mr Kraft uses this argument to say that we are not ethically bound to help people in poor countries, for example.
This is a very weak argument.
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