Essentially Shared Obligations
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The Lake: Alice, Bertha, and Claudia live around Forest Lake, at some distance from each other. The ecosystem is sensitive, in particular to the solvent they have been using when painting their boats, and the lake is faring badly. Until recently, they had no way of knowing that the solvent would have this effect, but they just learned that it is in fact killing the fish in the lake, and that the fish would survive if the amount of solvent entering the lake were sufficiently decreased. Alice now thinks that she might be able to make a difference if she takes on the minor hassle of disposing of the solvent in a safe way. Bertha and Claudia each think similar thoughts. As a matter of fact, the fish would not be saved if only one of them stopped polluting, but it would be if at least two of them did.
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