Philosophy 2080 Lecture 4: Lecture 4

• School: Western University
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: Philosophy 2080
• Professor: James Hildebrand

Document Summary

We for ourselves have to choose between the right and the good. When it harms someone else, harming someone else"s freedom, whenever your behaviour is going to have a negative impact on someone else. In canada, we have a very specific view of strict liability. When you do something that can damage those near you, some unnatural then you are strictly liable. Electric pole that"s 3 and a half feet (a meter) from a maple tree and the maple tree is at least 40 ft high, with the branches cut off until 25 feet. There"s another tree next to the maple tree, but someone built a ladder up the tree, a platform that goes to the maple tree, and another ladder up. A child was climbing up the tree, he fell, got electrocuted, got a fairly bad injury, and sued on the basis that people are going to climb trees and it was foreseeable.