Ethics and Values / Unit 6 Ethics 278 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Strangers Problem
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The idea
The strangers problem: an ethic built on close relations says too little about distant others — famine victims, future generations, the unconnected.
In practice
A donor moved only by faces she knows gives nothing across the ocean. Whatever pulls money toward strangers, relation alone is not it.
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