Essential Question Post #3

We read Singer's solution to world poverty in english class, and he says that to do your fair share to help the starving children in the world, we all need to donate at least $200 to an organization that would use it to help kids in need. Is this what I should be doing to make the world a better place? Singer makes me feel really uncomfortable and guilty because he says that if you don't donate, you are killing a child. He makes it seem like you better donate or else you aren't a morally decent person. This is really uncomfortable because he is basically saying that you aren't a good person at all if you don't donate. I don't think that by not donating you are actually killing a child, but you aren't doing anything to help that child either. I don't know if i could do this to make the world a better place and save a child's life because i don't have my own $200 to donate all the time. I would have to use my parent's money, which i wouldn't want to do because it wouldn't really feel like i was actually doing something. I think for me to feel like i actually helped and made a difference, I would have to work for or raise the money myself.