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How Much for the Child?

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dc.contributor.authorBarry, Christian
dc.contributor.authorOverland, Gerhard
dc.date.accessioned2015-12-10T22:40:57Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.date.updated2016-02-24T11:39:02Z
dc.description.abstractIn this paper we explore what sacrifices you are morally required to make to save a child who is about to die in front of you. It has been argued that you would have very demanding duties to save such a child (or any adult who is in similar circumstance through no fault of their own, for that matter), and some examples have been presented to make this claim seem intuitively correct. Against this, we argue that you do not in general have a moral requirement to bear more than moderate cost to save even a child who is just in front of you. Moreover, we explain why you have a much more demanding moral requirement in certain cases by appealing to the notions of undue risk and cost sharing.
dc.identifier.issn1386-2820
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/57670
dc.publisherKluwer Academic Publishers
dc.sourceEthical Theory and Moral Practice
dc.subjectKeywords: Duties of assistance; Global poverty; Peter Singer
dc.titleHow Much for the Child?
dc.typeJournal article
local.bibliographicCitation.issueDecember
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage16
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage1
local.contributor.affiliationBarry, Christian , College of Arts and Social Sciences, ANU
local.contributor.affiliationOverland, Gerhard, Charles Sturt University
local.contributor.authoruidBarry, Christian , u4454474
local.description.embargo2037-12-31
local.description.notesImported from ARIES
local.identifier.absfor220319 - Social Philosophy
local.identifier.absseo970122 - Expanding Knowledge in Philosophy and Religious Studies
local.identifier.ariespublicationu8205243xPUB410
local.identifier.citationvolume1
local.identifier.doi10.1007/s10677-011-9325-4
local.identifier.scopusID2-s2.0-84872796302
local.identifier.thomsonID000313952400013
local.type.statusPublished Version

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