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Living High and Letting Die Our Illusion of Innocence

Peter Unger

By contributing a few hundred dollars to a charity like UNICEF, a prosperous person can ensure that fewer poor children die, and that more will live reasonably long, worthwhile lives. Even when knowing this, however, most people send nothing, and almost all of the rest send little. What is the moral...

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10% Happier with Dan Harris

This book was mentioned in the context of illustrating the degree of global inequality in well-being and the speaker's privileging of trivial comforts in the face of massive suffering in the world, which caused the speaker deep emotional turmoil.

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I remember when I was in college reading in the college library in a comfortable cushy chair and I was reading a book Peter Unger living high and letting die that was illustrating just the degree of i...

— Episode: Why Self-Hatred Makes No Sense | Matthew...

Episode: Why Self-Hatred Makes No Sense | Matthew Brensilve...

This book was mentioned in the context of illustrating the degree of global inequality in well-being and the speaker's privileging of trivial comforts in the face of massive suffering in the world, which caused the speaker deep emotional turmoil.

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I remember when I was in college reading in the college library in a comfortable cushy chair and I was reading a book Peter Unger living high and letting die that was illustrating just the degree of inequality of well-being across the globe and my privileging of trivial comforts in the face of the enormity and tractable suffering of the world and that scrambled me and my heart in a deep way

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