[PHLB07H3] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes fot the exam (22 pages long!)
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Allowing to die: according to consequentialist and utilitarian thinking, these will be morally indistinguishable, common objections against this idea, 1. We can imagine that someone has inherited a lot of money. That person"s cousin is next in line for that money. He can kill the person and make it look like an accident, and notices that the child is in the bathtub drowning. The person can easily save the child, but thinks, this is perfect, i can allow him to die without killing him on my own. : 2. Greater certainty of outcome when we will: if i take a gun to your head, it"s quite likely that you"ll die; whereas if i don"t donate to agencies, it"s not certain that they will die. There is no reason why i should give more than anyone else in the same circumstances as i am.
