Can self-preservation be virtuous in disaster situations?
Ordinary moral rules and virtues can be found seriously inadequate in circumstances where natural catastrophes afflict large numbers of people. Satoshi Kodama provides a strong defence of the rule of tsunami-tendenko being invoked as an evacuation policy in these exceptional situations, such as that...
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2015
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Journal of medical ethics
Year: 2015, Volume: 41, Issue: 5, Pages: 364-365 |
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