Obligations to Merely Statistical People

In some cases the morality of action is an inter‐personal affair. I am obliged to do something and there is a person to whom I am obliged to do it. I do wrong and there is a person I wrong. Some routine examples: I do wrong, and wrong you, by doing something bad for you, by feeding you contaminated...

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Main Author: Hare, Caspar (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Journal of Philosophy, Inc., 2014-03-14T18:59:15Z.
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