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I ran into a homeless man yesterday. He told me that he had been displaced from his home in flint Michigan due to water safety issues.

This unfortunately caused him to lose his job. His wife was still working as a CNA but due to rapidly rising inflation they were unable to make ends meet. This led to a deep stress in the household.

He turned to alcohol and was soon forced out of his home by his wife. While on the streets he began taking harder drugs and soon OD’d on fentanyl. Luckily the paramedics were able to narcan him and bring him back to life.

He’s now trying to turn his life around. I asked him if there was one thing I could do to help him and people like him what would it be?

He looked up at me with tears in his eyes and said “the only thing that will help is a regime change war in Iran”.

Jonathan 6mo ago

I saw a drowning child yesterday. I was taking my morning run and as I passed the pond on my route I saw a child slip in and fall into the pond. A little bit further away I saw ten children slip and fall into the next pond over. I carefully measured out the distance to each of the two ponds and found that the pond with a single drowning child was slightly closer to me. Therefore I had no ethical obligation to the ten children further away. I waded in and saved the single child closer to me and together we stood on the bank and watched the ten children drown.

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Jonathan 6mo ago

Here's the full philosophical argument from Peter Singer:

https://www.thelifeyoucansave.org/child-in-the-pond/

And an article from Richard Hanania arguing why is beneficial to intervene in this instance:

https://www.richardhanania.com/p/the-right-way-to-do-regime-change