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Theron Pummer on the Rules of Rescue

May 8, 2023
23:00
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1
Introduction
00:00 • 2min
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2
The Moral Obligation to Save More
02:05 • 2min
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3
The Counterintuitive Conclusiveness of Saving More Rather Than Less Lives
04:21 • 2min
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4
The Importance of Permissions Not to Help
06:28 • 2min
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5
The Importance of Requirements
08:43 • 2min
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6
The Ethics of Rescue
10:45 • 4min
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7
The Green Button Thought Experiment
14:57 • 2min
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8
The Importance of Lifetime Requirements to Help Others
16:37 • 2min
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9
How to Give Effectively to a Cancer Charity
18:49 • 2min
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10
How to Give Non-Optimally
21:03 • 2min
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You might not have an obligation to risk your life saving other people, but if you do, you should go for saving the greatest number. That's more or less what Theon Pummer believes. Listen to him discussing the morality of rescue with David Edmonds in this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast

 

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