Morality: Action Vs. Inaction

Battlehamster · 2013-09-20 19:29:00

@kamuizin - Who asked for an interesting, but totally off-topic moral debate. Lemmie take this up a notch and respond to your question with a question. Someone existing outside spacetime approaches you with opportunity to kill the man in your example. If you do so, these hundreds of good people get to live. However, one of…

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Schmetterling Member Posts: 5

September 2013 edited September 2013

kamuizin said:

Just remember that with the knowledge and by inactivity, you're so guilty of the act as it's perpetrator.
Woah, hold the phone. Why am I just as guilty as the perp if I do nothing? The fact that I choose to do nothing with foreknowledge doesn't make me responsible the actions of other people. I mean, I know it makes me a bit of a dick, but I'm not splitting it 50/50 with John McMurderkill over here.

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