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    The Rules of Rescue

    Cost, Distance, and Effective Altruism

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    Author(s)
    Pummer, Theron
    Contributor(s)
    Ohlin, Peter (editor)
    Language
    English
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    Abstract
    This is a book about duties to help others. When does one have to sacrifice life and limb, time and money, to prevent harm to others? When must one save more people rather than fewer? These questions arise in emergencies involving nearby strangers who are drowning or trapped in burning buildings. But they also arise in everyday life, in which one has constant opportunities to give time or money to help distant strangers in need of food, shelter, or medical care. With the resources available, one can provide more help or less. This book argues that it is often wrong to provide less help rather than more, even when the personal sacrifice involved makes it permissible not to help at all. It shows that helping distant strangers by donating or volunteering is morally more like rescuing nearby strangers than most of us realize. The ubiquity of opportunities to help others threatens to make morality extremely demanding, and the book argues that it is only thanks to adequate permissions grounded in considerations of cost and autonomy that one may pursue one’s own plans and projects. It concludes that many are required to provide no less help over their lives than they would have done if they were effective altruists.
    URI
    https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/63648
    Keywords
    beneficence, preventing harm, requiring reason, permission, personal sacrifice, aggregation, all or nothing, praiseworthiness, distant stranger, effective altruism
    DOI
    10.1093/oso/9780190884147.001.0001
    ISBN
    9780190884147
    Publisher
    Oxford University Press
    Publisher website
    https://global.oup.com/
    Publication date and place
    2023
    Grantor
    • University of St Andrews
    Classification
    Ethics and moral philosophy
    Pages
    264
    Rights
    https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
    • Imported or submitted locally

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    • This project received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 683680, 810640, 871069 and 964352.

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