PHL295H1 Lecture : lecture note
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Green"s conditions of when it is permissible to do something when most others are doing it prisoner"s dilemma. If everyone else is doing it then its justified that its okay for you to do it too. If the harm done amounts to a serious wrong doing then the argument that everybody is doing it has no froce at all!! Stealing, generally speaking is wrong but can be justified say if everyone"s starving. Green approaches this by setting 5 conditions for when this argument actually has moral force pg. 69: refraining from this behaviour will unavoidably cause you or people you care for serious harm or loss www. notesolution. com. Suppose theres a long river companies have plants on this river all or most of the companies/plants are dumping affluence into the river so its severely polluted your company has to decide whether to pollute or not to pollute.
