NIMBY Claims, Free Riders and Universalisability

摘要

In 'Why not NIMBY?', Simon Feldman and Derek Turner mount a compelling case that NIMBY (Not In My Back Yard) claims are not intrinsically morally unjustified, despite the fact that NIMBY-claimants may be pursuing selfish or self-serving ends. To illustrate their argument, they focus on Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s petition against building a wind farm off the coast of Nantucket Sound. The authors characterise NIMBY claims as arguments given in support of the following type of preference ordering: (1) The wind farm goes in someone else's back yard; (2) The wind farm goes in nobody's back yard; (3) The wind farm goes in my back yard.