Critics Often Respond to the DROWNING CHILD Argument from Chapter

Multiple Choice

Critics often respond to the DROWNING CHILD argument from Chapter 7 by pointing out differences between the case of the child drowning in a pond and the case of children dying from poverty in distant countries. How does Peter Singer respond when people point out those differences?

A) He "bites the bullet" and admits that the conclusion holds despite those morally relevant differences.
B) He insists that his moral intuition is that those differences are not morally relevant.
C) He changes the scenario in the analogy to eliminate those differences (e.g., by adding other people near the pond who could help) .
D) He points out that such differences do not undermine the point about having obligations to save people in your own community.