Ethics and Values / Unit 8 Ethics 357 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Demandingness Reply
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The idea
The demandingness reply: a principle that converts every comfort into rescue budget swallows whole lives, and morality that permits no projects of one's own overreaches.
In practice
The violinist practicing six hours a day is not on strike against the world's suffering; a livable morality must be able to say so.
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