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Noun Concept
Categories: Environmentalism, Thought experiments in ethics
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lifeboat ethics  Life-boat ethic  Life-boat ethics  Life boat ethic  Life boat ethics
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Lifeboat ethics is a metaphor for resource distribution proposed by the ecologist Garrett Hardin in two articles published in 1974, building on his earlier 1968 article detailing "The tragedy of the commons". Wikipedia
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Lifeboat ethics is a metaphor for resource distribution proposed by the ecologist Garrett Hardin in two articles published in 1974, building on his earlier 1968 article detailing "The tragedy of the commons". Wikipedia
Proposed by Garret Hardin based on the metaphor of a lifeboat Wikipedia Disambiguation
Metaphor for resource distribution Wikidata
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thought experiment
ethical dilemma
DISCOVERER OR INVENTOR
Garrett Hardin
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lifeboat
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Life-boat ethic, Life-boat ethics, Life boat ethic, Life boat ethics, Lifeboat economics, Lifeboat ethic, Lifeboat Ethics, Lifeboat Ethics: the Case Against Helping the Poor

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