Thomas Pogge Quotes
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Medicines are unusual commodities. Important drugs can save the lives and protect the health of millions. Their consumption can bring huge benefits, by helping patients…
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The cost of research, development and testing of a new drug is vastly greater than the cost of each dose produced. How should we pay…
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Whatever we, as prospective participants unaware of our specific features, would desire society to be like is what, morally speaking, we ought to institute.
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We citizens of the affluent countries tend to discuss our obligations toward the distant needy mainly in terms of donations and transfers, assistance and redistribution:…
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By seeing the problem of poverty merely in terms of assistance, we overlook that our enormous economic advantage is deeply tainted by how it accumulated…
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It seems far-fetched, even preposterous, to blame the global economic order for the persistence of severe poverty in countries that are ruled by obvious thugs…
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The stunning thing about the world as it is, is that we have a tremendously large problem in it: namely, one-third of all human deaths,…
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