A solid star match up. My feelings about Singer’s brand of utilitarianism are a bit too complicated to sum up in a blog post at the moment, but I think that where Singer tends to go wrong is in his policy analysis, where the issues are often less clear than I think he thinks, more than his ethical theory which, though very unpopular, strikes me as pretty compelling.
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