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In his “Famine, Affluence, and Morality” Peter Singer establishes a principle of correct moral behavior, mainly that “if it is in our power to prevent something very bad from happening, without thereby sacrificing anything else morally significant, we ought, morally, to do it.” He reaches this point by taking a look at famine and starvation (“something very bad”) in the world, so that, according to him, the morally correct thing to do is prevent starvation in whatev