class: center, middle, inverse, title-slide # SOC 2220 Discussion Section ## Week 12 ### Xuewen Yan ### 2020-12-11 --- # Announcements - Quiz starting from 3pm Friday - Check deadlines from lecture slides--No extensions! - Don't Forget Course Evaluations! --- # Activity 1: Moral Obligations: Peter Singer’s Shallow Pond Analogy Watch the video: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGczdp0SE0c](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGczdp0SE0c) Question: 1. Reactions to the argument in the video? 2. What does Singer mean when he claims “if it is in our power to prevent bad from happening without thereby sacrificing anything of comparable moral importance, we ought, morally to do it” (1972: 237)? 3. Do you agree with Singer's argument? 4. What was Miller's theory instead? Do you align more closely with Singer or Miller? --- # Activity 2: The Promise and Perils of Foreign Aid Watch the video: Proponents and Critics of Foreign Aid (3:45 to 7:04) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jCKSKYAzyQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jCKSKYAzyQ) Questions: 1. What are the main arguments **for** and **against** foreign aid, according to the video? 2. What is meant by a “pure gift” (Korf et al 2010)? Why did the authors suggest that the notion of a pure gift was problematic and inachievable? 3. With reference to the video and our class, do you consider yourself a supporter or detractor of foreign aid? 4. Given the discussions thus far (in Activities 1 and 2), will you get personally involved in foreign aiding efforts (NGO, government, private donation, etc.)? Why? --- # Thank you form and course evaluations! Don't Forget Course Evaluations! Thank you form to Professor Haskins! [https://forms.gle/1YCTzej5bEFjYiFo9](https://forms.gle/1YCTzej5bEFjYiFo9)