PHIL 1F90 Lecture Notes - Rag Doll, Stowaway

• School: Brock University
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 1F90
• Professor: Richard Brown

Document Summary

All stowaways on eds shall be jettisoned immediately upon discovery . Mr smith was cleaning his garage; he found a bottle marked distilled water. Looked like distilled water, opened bottle and smelled of distilled water. Smith took bottle to the stream behind his house and dumped the bottle into the water. What are possible results of pouring what he believed to be distilled water into the stream: not a single thing, all the water in jersey city downstream turned bright red, everyone in jersey city died. This tells you, you are accountable for an action and responsible for the consequences. (an expectation of consequences in this scenario, nothing would happen. It looked like distilled water, smelled like distilled water, no wrong) In marilyn"s case; the choice either marilyn dies .