We have created a Haiku to explain Singer’s drowning child argument as well as the other perspectives of the issue (deontology and virtue ethics) in a concise manner. We hope that non-philosophy NUS students will understand the rationale for helping a starving child in a poor country through this poem.

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• Low Jia Hui – Did the rebuttal to the objection about distance and edited the entire Haiku
  Crystal Lim Li Qin – Did the deontologist view of the argument and edited the entire Haiku
  Tran Hoang Bao Linh – Did the virtue ethics view of the argument and edited the entire Haiku
  Au Yong Shi Sien – Did Singer’s utilitarian argument, ending of the Haiku and poster design

Acknowledgement:

• Background for poster was taken from: http://www.lastwordonnothing.com/2015/03/20/debunking-hollywood-drowning/drown-rope/#main