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How much do you value your best pair of shoes?
How would you feel about losing your valuable watch?
Are you so attached to this watch that you would let a person die rather than have it broken?
A life is surely worth more than shoes or watch.
So what follows from this thought?
Here's Larry Temkin of Rutgers University.
Larry Temkin, welcome to philosophy Bites.
Thanks very much.
It's great to be back.
The topic we're going to focus on is the obligations of the needy.
We're going to begin with this very famous thought experiment that Peter Singer wrote about, has talked about numerous times.
The pond.
Right?
So Peter had this example.