PHI 2397 Lecture 22: Lecture 22 (Part 2)

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHI 2397
• Professor: Sardar Hosseini

Document Summary

Note: there was several class conversations based on tangent topics. Nuclear waste is a major moral problem, especially in today"s society. Many people don"t care at all about nuclear waste (those in power and those that are greedy: they don"t have any consider of the effects on nature and future generations (both immediate and long-term effects) Paper begins with an analogy /parable: freight train that has toxic/explosive gas that is not packaged problem. High risk that if exploded, it would harm/kill the passengers and maybe passer-byes: similar thought process with nuclear waste. People will get hurt (either now or in the future) Non-constraints position: we don"t have any moral obligation to distant future people/generations, we are absolutely free and we not responsible if something happens. 50 or 500 years from now: future generations don"t have the right or the entitlement to place responsibilities on us because they don"t exist yet, notion of social or legal convention.