free riding v complicity

Question 1

what is the difference between free riding and complicity

Answer 1

• free riding: when you reap the benefits of a certain group that you are not contributing to, even though you are in the group of people that should have been contributing. your impact does not matter.
  -complicity: contributing to the bad action but not being the sole reason that the bad action occurs. your impact does not matter

Question 2

morally permissible free riding

Answer 2

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Question 3

morally permissible complicity

Answer 3

when buys from unsustainable companies like amazon or certain fast fashion brands that use unethical labor they are contributing to climate change and enabling other immoral acts like child labor, however if a person is dirt poor and can’t afford to shop sustainably this would make it permissible

Question 4

morally wrong free riding

Answer 4

connecting your huge computer system to your neighbors wifi and costing them a substantial amount of extra money each month

Question 5

morally wrong complicity

Answer 5

being in a large cult that ends up killing 10 of the members