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Imperceptible Harms and Benefits (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2000)
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Imperceptible Harms and Benefits (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2000)
Series: Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy, 8
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The papers collected here represent the most recent work on a much
neglected problem in practical reasoning. It is the problem of
imperceptible harms and benefits. It is perhaps better to
characterize the problem as a collection of puzzles or paradoxes,
since those who deny the existence (or possibility) of
imperceptible decrements (or increments) face problems no less
perplexing than those who affinn their existence. The puzzles and
paradoxes combine very practical and pressing worries about our
obligations to relieve starvation, mitigate suffering and conserve
resources, with deep metaethical worries about the nature of
practical rationality. I use these brief introductory pages to
familiarize the reader with the basic set of problems examined in
this collection. Most of us think that an action cannot be wrong if
its effects are entirely and always imperceptible.. Jonathan
Glover's fanciful example of the 100 armed bandits and the 100
Wlarmed tribesman clearly illustrates a deep worry with such moral
reasoning."
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