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Pogge’s Aim: Recap

Two perspectives on poverty-caused deaths.

needs-based

We citizens of affluent countries

have a positive duty to meet needs.

harm-based

We have a negative duty not to harm.

?

Reducing severe poverty abroad
at the expense of our own affluence
would not be generous on our part,
but is something we owe,
and our failure to do this
does make us morally responsible
for the continued deprivation of the poor.

\citep[cf][p.~2]{pogge:2005_world}

cf Pogge, 2005

Pogge’s big idea

From weak assumptions about duties not to harm

it is possible to derive

a radical conclusion about redistribution.

Aside

Libertarians

‘Libertarianism is a family of views in political philosophy.

Libertarians strongly value individual freedom and see this as justifying strong protections for individual freedom.

[...] Libertarians usually see the kind of large-scale, coercive wealth redistribution in which contemporary welfare states engage as involving unjustified coercion.’

So you can see Libertarians are relevant because they would probably not accept that there is a duty to help, but would probably accept a duty not to harm.
\citep{vandervossen:2019_libertarianism}

van der Vossen, 2019

[repeated] So you can see Libertarians are relevant because they would probably not accept that there is a duty to help, but would probably accept a duty not to harm.

Two perspectives on poverty-caused deaths.

needs-based

We citizens of affluent countries

have a positive duty to meet needs.

harm-based

We have a negative duty not to harm.

Pogge’s ‘central conclusion’

‘we, the citizens and governments of the affluent countries, in collusion with the ruling elites of many poor countries, are harming the global poor by imposing an unjust institutional order upon them‘

Pogge, 2005 p. 59