The Morality of the Overcrowded Lifeboat |
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The behavior of people in a situation of extreme scarcity, and the moral response to it, is the raw area where philosophy most closely joins with natural science. The story of the shipwreck of the William Brown , of Philadelphia, USA, and sailing from Liverpool, England, in March 1841, is one that nearly all priests and ministers like to tell, even if they don't know the story in detail, and even if the moral lesson they attempt to draw is the wrong one. The ship hit an iceberg and sank. The... read more
Published : 1 year, 3 months ago (Tue, 25 Mar 2008 07:01:16 PDT) http://jenab6.livejournal.com/14535.html
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