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A History of Ideas: The Life You Can Save

Harry Shearer on the Life You can Save

In this action packed animation, lives are saved and expensive shoes ruined to answer the question: Is there an important difference between someone drowning in front of you and someone dying in a far off land? Drawing on the thinking of the Philosopher Peter Singer, we get an insight into whether proximity has any bearing on ethical problems.

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Here’s the whole episode from A History of Ideas – Lawyer Harry Potter on Morality and the Law.

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