What Peter Singer thinks about empathy

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Australian moral philosopher, Professor of Bioethics emeritus at Princeton University; author of Animal Liberation, Practical Ethics and The Life You Can Save.

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1. 2 Sept 2026

   Our readingPeople today often know as much about the needs created by a drought or flood on the other side of the world as about the needs of those in their own region.

   Their wordsBut today, of course, we often know as much about the needs created by a drought or flood on the other side of the world as we do about the needs of those in our own region.

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