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Unger writes, “Our intuitions on very many cases, both hypothetical and even actual, do nothing toward reflecting these Values, as they’re produced by powerfully Distortional Mental Tendencies that prevent us from responding in line with the Values” (Unger 1999, 173–175).
Why does he have no insurance? Well, assume that if he had, the company would not cover damages caused by natural incidents, or that it would not cover them since Bob himself directed the avalanche towards his own new house.
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(Singer 2009) Christian Barry, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, (Australian National University) and Gerhard Øverland , Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics (University of Melbourne). We thank seminar participants at the Australian National University and the University of Melbourne for discussion of these issues. We are particularly grateful to Thom Brooks, Helen Taylor and Leif Wenar for comments on earlier versions, and to Alejandra Mancilla for research assistance.
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Barry, C., Øverland, G. Responding to Global Poverty: Review Essay of Peter Singer, The Life you can Save . Bioethical Inquiry 6, 239–247 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11673-009-9159-0
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