麦当娜与儿童

Nov 9, 2006 Peter Singer

10月份，全世界几十亿人都知道了马拉维的一岁男孩戴维。而仅仅一个月前，大概还有很多人从来没听说过戴维的祖国，一个与莫桑比克、赞比亚和坦桑尼亚接壤的仅有1300万人口的非洲内陆国家。而突然之间，戴维就变成了世界上最知名的马拉维人，因为他有幸被麦当娜领养，而电视镜头见了麦当娜就像狗熊见了蜂蜜一样疯狂。

但戴维确实好运吗？戴维的父亲尤罕·邦达（Yohane Banda）眨眼间成了知名人物，他说他原来不知道儿子将不再属于自己，也不知道儿子可能再也不会回到马拉维。麦当娜说尽管她听不懂邦达的语言，但邦达当时绝对不是的这样的说法。人们也开始询问，把孩子从父亲身边带走好吗？人权倡议者开始提起诉讼，要求戴维回到自己的祖国。

戴维的母亲已经离开了人世。她去世后，戴维的父亲边种菜边干零活，根本无法照顾戴维，不得已把他送进了孤儿院。在遇到麦当娜之前，小戴维与500多个孩子在孤儿院共同生活。因为马拉维国内HIV/艾滋病肆虐，使那里的孤儿人数超过了100万。而孤儿院的条件非常有限，院里的很多孩子都活不过5岁。麦当娜说他见到戴维时，他正患有严重的肺炎，连呼吸都非常困难。

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Peter Singer

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Peter Singer is Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University, Laureate Professor in the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies at the University of Melbourne, and founder of the non-profit organization The Life You Can Save. His books include Animal Liberation, Practical Ethics, The Ethics of What We Eat (with Jim Mason), Rethinking Life and Death, The Point of View of the Universe, co-authored with Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek, The Most Good You Can Do, Famine, Affluence, and Morality, One World Now, Ethics in the Real World, and Utilitarianism: A Very Short Introduction, also with Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek. In 2013, he was named the world's third "most influential contemporary thinker" by the Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute.