Peter Singer on How to Reduce Suffering
The Good Fight
Yascha Mounk
4.7 • 963 Ratings
🗓️ 30 October 2021
⏱️ 56 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Born with 300 bones, 10,000 taste buds, and the ability to make you smile in an instant. |
| 0:08.0 | Babies development fascinates us. |
| 0:11.0 | That's why SMA nutrition has been pioneering baby nutrition research |
| 0:15.6 | for over 100 years. We believe that breast milk is best for babies and breastfeeding |
| 0:21.3 | should continue for as long as possible. |
| 0:23.8 | We also understand everyone's journey is different. |
| 0:27.0 | SMA follow-on-on- Milk is the babies over six months as part of a varied weaning diet not intended to replace breastfeeding. |
| 0:34.3 | SMA Nutrition, pioneering baby nutrition since 1919. |
| 0:40.0 | I think whether somebody is on the other side of the world from a completely different |
| 0:45.9 | culture from yours, different country, or whether they're a fellow citizen isn't really that |
| 0:52.0 | important morally as compared with the differences in their |
| 0:55.7 | needs and again if you're a citizen of an Afron country the amount of difference you can make when |
| 1:00.8 | helping somebody who's in extreme poverty who's living on two dollars a day. |
| 1:05.4 | There's just so much more difference you can make because of the laws of diminishing marginal utility, |
| 1:10.9 | helping somebody like that, then helping somebody in your own country who might |
| 1:14.6 | be classified as being in poverty in an affluent country but that probably means they're |
| 1:18.6 | on 20,000 dollars a year maybe where modest amounts are not going to make life-changing |
| 1:23.6 | differences. And now the good fight with Yasha Monk. |
| 1:29.6 | Normally I start off this podcast by telling you about something I'm excited about, |
| 1:38.2 | something I've observed about the world, some opinion that I have about an important thing going on right now. Well, today is a little bit different. |
| 1:47.9 | We've been doing a real push on the podcast, a real push to get the best possible guests, |
| 1:55.0 | the most interesting conversation partners, |
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