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Lifeboat ethics
is a metaphor for resource distribution proposed by the ecologist Garrett Hardin in 1974. Hardin's metaphor describes a lifeboat
bearing 50 people, with room for ten more. The
lifeboat
is in an ocean surrounded by a hundred swimmers.
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