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To confirm the problems in nutshell, this chapter firstly introduces “distribution of sacrifice” perspective to discuss the COVID-19 pandemic and the age of the After Corona through this book. What is “sacrifice”? It is not a mere cost that is essential to achieve a goal. As articulates in detail through this book, sacrifice is something necessary to be imposed as a result of the social evil caused by the simultaneous existence of an unspecified number of people in the same environment. It is a problem that we repeatedly face in many crises, but has humanity taken a serious look at it? Traditional social sciences such as economics has tended to view it only from the perspective of utility and profit. However, the essence of the problem that humanity is currently facing, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, friction between the USA and China and global climate crisis, is the perspective of how to mutually impose more sacrifices among the stakeholders. In light of such actuality, we must reconsider the moral law and the nature of international cooperation for the sake of people's peace, especially in the case of crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Shibuya, K. (2022). A Worldview Seen from Sacrifices. In: The Rise of Artificial Intelligence and Big Data in Pandemic Society. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-0950-4_1
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