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Record W2327097147 · doi:10.5840/monist200386323

We Don’t Owe Them a Thing!

2003· article· en· W2327097147 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueThe Monist · 2003
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicPolitical Philosophy and Ethics
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Waterloo
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPhilosophyContemporary philosophyAnalytic philosophyEpistemologyGeneral interest

Abstract

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The discovery that people far away are in bad shape seems to generate a sense of guilt on the part of many articulate people in our (wealthy) part of the world, even though they are no off now that we've heard about them than they had been before. I will take it as given that we are certainly responsible for evils we inflict on others, no matter where, and that we owe those people compensation. Not all similarly agree that it is not in general our duty to make other people better off, and therefore not in general our fault when people are not better off than they happen to be, even if perhaps we could have made them so by efforts of our own. Nevertheless, I have seen no plausible argument that we owe something, as a matter of general duty, to those to whom we have done nothing wrong. Still, morally commendable motives of humanity and sympathy support beneficence, and if we wish to call those there is something to be said for that, too. I shall, in fact, try to say it later in this essay. A further clarificatory point is in order: I also take it that if we did have any such duties, they would not be, as such, to people who are merely worse off than Americans don't owe anything to Canadians or Englishmen, even though Americans have a higher real income. Our subject, I presume, is people who are, by some reasonable criterion, badly off, and not merely off than we. It is not clear how we would identify this reasonable criterion, but I will assume that there are plausible answers; a duty to needy people, if we had one, would be to try to get them up to that relevant standard, rather than to a condition of equality with ourselves. I will say no more about egalitarianism here.1

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.982
Threshold uncertainty score0.873

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.100
GPT teacher head0.337
Teacher spread0.237 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it