PHI 2397 Lecture 22: Lecture 22 (Part 1)
30 Nov 2016
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PHI2397: Business Ethics
Lecture 22 (November 30th)
Note #1: This is a preliminary set of notes. More detailed notes based on
the prof’s slides will be posted in a few days (there will be changes)
Note #2: There was several class conversations based on tangent topics.
Ethics of Nuclear Waste
• 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)
o 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
o 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
o Similar thought process with nuclear waste.
▪ It's a ticking time bomb
▪ Eventually it will explode
▪ People will get hurt (either now or in the future)
• Non-Constraints Position
o We don’t have any moral obligation to distant future
people/generations
o We are absolutely free and we not responsible if something happens
50 or 500 years from now
o Future generations don’t have the right or the entitlement to place
responsibilities on us because they don’t exist yet
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