你能拯救的生命
The life you can save
Peter Singer · 初版 2009 年
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为什么值得读
- 篇幅短小通俗且论述兼顾正反两方
- 直接促使读者增加捐赠并支持慈善事业
- 深刻改变读者的人生观并启发有效利他思想
现在正是扪心自问“我该做些什么来提供帮助？”的时候。人类历史上第一次，消除世界贫困及其带来的苦难变得触手可及。然而在世界各地，仍有十亿人每天勉强依靠比我们许多人买一瓶瓶装水还少的开销艰难求生。尽管在过去的半个世纪里，全球因贫困导致的死亡人数大幅下降，但每年仍有近一千万儿童不必要地死去。发达国家的人们正面临着深刻的抉择：如果我们不想对全球五分之一的人口置之不理……
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……一个自称读过很多书的人，居然会用一段风马牛不相及的文字来描述EA（有效利他主义）的动机，这也太奇怪了。为什么不直接去读一手资料和了解他们原本的动机呢？彼得·辛格（Peter Singer）写的《你能拯救的生命》（The Life You Can Save）篇幅很短，而且通俗易懂。也许立稻草人打起来更容易吧……读过辛格的书之后，我觉得EA的动机其实就是把“在世界上做善事”的心愿与理性结合起来……
…someone who claims to read a lot it's odd that he would use a passage from an unrelated source to describe the motivation for EA. Why not just read some of the direct sources and their motivations? The Life You Can Save by Peter Singer is quite short and accessible. Maybe it's easier to attack straw men... Having read Singer, I'd say that the motivation is to take the sense of "doing good in the world" and apply reason…
……真正的知识；这就是传统意义上的“批判”（Critique），即划定范畴的边界。话虽如此，我对形式哲学（我一直对认识论感兴趣）的兴趣，完全始于彼得·辛格的《你能拯救的生命》。虽然我最后并不认同辛格所主张的论点，但他把正方论点和反驳观点都摆了出来。能做到如此惊人的公正客观，这本书依然价值连城……
…true knowledge; this is what 'Critique' traditionally means, the limit of the scope. That being said my interest in formal philosophy (I've always been interested in epistemology) at all came from "The Life You Can Save" by Peter Singer. I ended up disagreeing with the argument Singer advocates for but he provides both the argument and the counter-argument. With the fairness being so remarkable, the book remains invaluable…
彼得·辛格的《你能拯救的生命：立即行动终结世界贫困》（The Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty）。读完这本书后，我大幅增加了自己的捐款金额，并开始资助几家新的慈善机构。还有山姆·哈里斯（Sam Harris）的《撒谎》（Lying）。这本……
"The Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty" by Peter Singer. After reading this I dramatically increased the amount of money that I donate and began supporting several new charities. "Lying" by Sam Harris. This…
我是把这本书和彼得·辛格关于有效利他主义的两本书（《你能拯救的生命》和《你能做出的最大善举》）一起读的，我不得不说，这些书真的改变了我的人生。我知道这话听起来有点俗套，但我以前从没读过哪本书能对我产生如此持久的影响。这些书提供……
I've read this book together with the two books about Effective Altruism bei Peter Singer (The Life You Can Save and The Most Good You Can Do), and I have to say these books have really changed my life. I know it sounds cheesy, but I've never read books that had such a lasting influence on me. Those books provide…
他是世界上最顶尖的生物伦理学家之一。他关于动物福利（比如《我们怎么吃》）和消除贫困（比如《扩大的圈子》、《你能拯救的生命》）的著作都棒极了，绝对应该是必读书目。
He's one of the world's most pre-eminent bioethicists. His writings on animal welfare (e.g., The Way We Eat) and fighting poverty (e.g., The Expanding Circle, The Life You Can Save) are fantastic and should be required reading.
有效利他主义（Effective Altruism）改变了我的人生：正是由于这个运动背后的理念，我现在将自己至少10%的收入捐给性价比最高的慈善机构。入门好书推荐：彼得·辛格的《你能拯救的生命》、彼得·辛格的《你能做出的最大善举》（The Most Good You Can Do）、威廉·麦卡斯基尔（William MacAskill）的《聪明行善》（Doing Good Better）。
Effective Altruism has changed my life: I'm now giving at least 10% of my income to cost-effective charities thanks to the ideas behind the movement. Good books to start with: The Life You Can Save - Peter Singer The Most Good You Can Do - Peter Singer Doing Good Better - William MacAskill