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- Title
Priorities of Global Justice.
- Authors
Pogge, Thomas
- Abstract
One-third of all human deaths are due to poverty-related causes, to malnutrition and to diseases that can be prevented or cured cheaply. Yet our politicians, academics, and mass media show little concern for how such poverty might be reduced. They are more interested in possible military interventions to stop human rights violations in developing countries, even though such interventions - at best - produce smaller benefits at greater cost. This Western priority may be rooted in self-interest. But it engenders, and is sustained by, a deeply flawed moral presentation of global economic cooperation. The new global economic order we impose aggravates global inequality and reproduces severe poverty on a massive scale. On any plausible understanding of our moral values, the prevention of such poverty is our foremost responsibility.
- Subjects
JUSTICE; POVERTY; EQUALITY; HUNGER
- Publication
Metaphilosophy, 2001, Vol 32, Issue 1/2, p6
- ISSN
0026-1068
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/1467-9973.00172