PHL275H1 Lecture 13: Are Objections to Utilitarianism Truly Sound?
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Phillipa foot however, says that these two choices are separate distinctions; they can thus be separated (pg. When operating alone, it becomes dif cult to assess the moral signi cance of these distinctions: consider the rachels example, in where one lets a sibling drown in a bath so that they could get the sibling"s inheritance. While many want to say that one course of action regarding mortality should not be more or less objectionable, it is a moral fact that in some instances, action or passivity will bring about identical consequences. Foot"s view is that the distinction between doing and enabling seems important, since of those two acts which merely foresee evil, the one that actually brings about evil can be more wrong: refer to pg. One option is more morally objectionable in both respects, while another is less objectionable in both respects.
