Kyle Kispert. Chapter 1. Question 5

In this chapter, Charles Wheelan makes the claim that we shouldn't impose preferences on people whose lives are different than our own. He gives the example about South Americans cutting down trees to sell and provide for their family and buy malaria nets. Since in this case it's more of an American preference to save the environment, that we shouldn't pay these South American families to stop cutting down these trees. I'm my opinion this is a poor example for explaining where we should impose our preferences on others. Rather I think people all over the earth have a few preferences I'm common, such as health. In this example trees are healthy for the whole planet and if South Americans can provide for their families with some money from the U.S I believe this would be beneficial, if the U.S. is willing to pay.