Edmund Burke said that "all it takes for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing". People are still saying the same. Del Amitri sang that "they'll burn down the synagogue at six o'clock and we'll go along like before".
Now Peter Singer is telling us about the "life we can save" and that while poverty and its grim companions (disease, lack of education etc.) still stalk the earth, what right have we to sit in comfort rather than taking action, regularly and pro-actively, by e.g. tithing a certain percentage of our income on a regular basis to help the poor.
Our sister site, Halcyon Impacts, looks at many of the ways people are making our could make a stand, to help others, to reduce unnecessary consumption etc.