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- Title
Other People's Errors.
- Authors
Alexander, Larry
- Abstract
The question of when other people's bad acts belong on our moral ledger arises in a number of different scenarios. Each scenario has received some philosophical attention, but no one has noted the structural similarities of these various scenarios or the implications of a proposed approach to one for how the others should be approached. That is the ambition of this article. In it, seemingly disparate moral phenomena-blunt rules, preemptive restrictions, moral blackmail, complicity, retreat and proportional response, and the duty to rescue from a peril one has caused-are shown to have similar structures and thus to require similar moral approaches.
- Subjects
ERROR; HUMAN behavior; RULES; DUTY; ETHICS
- Publication
Ethical Theory & Moral Practice, 2013, Vol 16, Issue 5, p1049
- ISSN
1386-2820
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10677-012-9399-7