PHLB05H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Firstclass
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Lecture 18: lifeboat earth (cid:894)respo(cid:374)se to si(cid:374)ger"s argu(cid:373)e(cid:374)ts(cid:895) Onora nell: her stance is between singer and hardin. Scenario 1a: future: when might killing be justified, suppose someone threatens to throw all the water => kill them b/c self-defence. Scenario 1b: suppose food is withheld from someone, this is clearly unjustified, on a well-equipped boat, only self-defence would save them. Scenario 2a: one person is sick and needs extra water. if they drink the water someone else will die. Water is withheld from them: further justification is needed. [if you distribute water to one person the other will die which is bad; therefore, it needs more justification. ] Objection: false that everyone has equal property rights: even if you"(cid:396)e entitled to your property, you cannot use the property in a certain way to kill people. Partiality, favoritism, and morality (cottingham: this a(cid:396)ti(cid:272)le is pushi(cid:374)g (cid:271)a(cid:272)k i(cid:374)ge(cid:396)"s (cid:448)ie(cid:449), so(cid:373)e pa(cid:396)tiality is justified.
