Damaged lives Book

Quite a reasonable examination of a few different problems in contemporary ethics. Murphy's analysis of the overdemandingness objection to act-utilitarianism was quite thorough and enjoyable, although his solution to overdemandingness based upon his compliance condition ultimately fails because it is too vulnerable to extrinsic and irrelevant externalities, as demonstrated by Mulgan in his book The Demands of Consequentialism. Overall, Murphy's book was a fairly enjoyable read, although I found significant parts of it hard to follow, largely (I think) due to Murphy's writing style (but I think this was just due to a lack of personal preference).