I think there’s plenty of place for argument in moral reflection, but part of that argument includes accepting that things aren’t necessarily “obvious” or “irrefutable” because they’re intuitively appealing. Personally I think the drowning child experiment is pretty useful as thought experiments go, but human morality in practice is so complicated that even Peter Singer doesn’t act consistently with it, and I don’t think it’s because he doesn’t care.
I think there’s plenty of place for argument in moral reflection, but part of that argument includes accepting that things aren’t necessarily “obvious” or “irrefutable” because they’re intuitively appealing. Personally I think the drowning child experiment is pretty useful as thought experiments go, but human morality in practice is so complicated that even Peter Singer doesn’t act consistently with it, and I don’t think it’s because he doesn’t care.