It’s more like you have a million apples, and there’s a whole town with 1 apple each who’re starving. It doesn’t matter how you got those apples, that town should storm your house and take them, because you don’t need them and the fact that you’re hoarding them at all is an indication that you shouldn’t be allowed to make that decision.
It’s more like you have a million apples, and there’s a whole town with 1 apple each who’re starving. It doesn’t matter how you got those apples, that town should storm your house and take them, because you don’t need them and the fact that you’re hoarding them at all is an indication that you shouldn’t be allowed to make that decision.
A difference in moral philosophy. The ability to help, absent some other relationship, does not create the obligation to help.