Suppose your friend is injured and you need to get to a hospital. There is a car nearby but the owner is nowhere to be found. You have no other mode of transportation or means of calling an ambulance. Can you borrow the car without permission? Many of us think so. But doesn't that suggest a general principle that applies also to those who suffer from desperate poverty and need to get access to food or basic resources?
Host Avery Kolers of the University of Louisville talks to Dr. Alejandra Mancilla, Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oslo, in Norway, about her book "The Right of Necessity", and what the global poor may do to meet their basic needs.
Music by Prismic who is also on Soundcloud at @prismicofficial.