Were we incapable of empathy of putting ourselves in the position of others and seeing that their suffering is like our own then ethical reasoning would lead nowhere. If emotion without reason is blind then reason without emotion is impotent.
Peter Singer
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Extreme poverty is not only a condition of unsatisfied material needs. It is often accompanied by a degrading state of powerlessness.
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Hebrew word for charity tzedakah simply means justice and as this suggests for Jews giving to the poor is no optional extra but an essential part of living a just life.
- Peter Singer