Peter Singer, The Life You Can Save: Acting Now To End World Poverty Quotes
Hebrew word for "charity" tzedakah, simply means "justice" and as this suggests, for Jews, giving to the poor is no optional extra but an essential part of living a just life.
Extreme poverty is not only a condition of unsatisfied material needs. It is often accompanied by a degrading state of powerlessness.
Putting yourself in the place of others...is what thinking ethically is all about.
...moral relativism, a position many find attractive only until they are faced with someone who is doing something really, really wrong.