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RESCUE AND HARM:

Discussion of Peter Unger’s Living High and Letting Die

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 March 1999

F.M. Kamm
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How much must we sacrifice in order to stop strangers from suffering serious losses, and does distance from them alter our obligations? When may we harm some people to help others? How can we best reason about these issues? These are three general questions—the first two are substantive ones, the third a methodological one—that Peter Unger discusses in his book Living High and Letting Die (hereinafter LHLD) and that I discuss in this article.1

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Research Article
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Legal Theory , Volume 5 , Issue 1 , March 1999 , pp. 1 - 44
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© 1999 Cambridge University Press