One day he parked near the train tracks, coincidentally there was a runaway train coming in the direction of his expensive car. As you can imagine, he would have been frantic trying to keep this train from damaging his car, but he was too far away to drive his car out of the train's path. He noticed that there was also a child playing in the immediate vicinity. The idea immediately came to him to save his Bugatti, but this would have been at the expense of the child's life. Unfortunately he has chosen his pension insurance and operates a switch to divert the train from his car into the path of the child who died after being hit by the moving train. Singer argues that people often face similar dilemmas and, surprisingly, we act in selfish ways that benefit us. Maybe family and society have thought us that we should take care of others who can take care of themselves, but somehow we always serve our own interests. It is a great challenge to live a morally decent life since it means that we will have to sacrifice much of our desires in the name of helping those who do not have enough to survive. He admits that we are all in this together and addresses the dilemma of how best to act without being