Singer replies, “If we shrug our shoulders at the avoidable suffering of the weak and the poor, of those who are getting exploited and ripped off, or who simply do not have enough to sustain life at a decent level, we are not of the left. If we say that that is just the way the world is, and always will be, and there is nothing we can do about it, we are not part of the left. The left wants to do something about this situation.” 47 Singer’s leftism, like traditional leftism, is defined by a contrast with a defeatist Tragic Vision. But its goal—“doing something”—has been downsized considerably
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