Is Killing No Worse Than Letting Die?

Journal of Applied Philosophy 12 (1):101-106 (1995)
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ABSTRACT Those who wish to refute the view that it is worse to kill than to let die sometimes produce examples of cases in which an agent lets someone die but would be generally agreed to be no less reprehensible than if he had killed. It is argued that the examples produced typically possess a feature which makes their use in this context illegitimate, and that when modified to remove this feature, they provide support for the view which they were designed to undermine

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Killing and letting die.Bonnie Steinbock & Alastair Norcross (eds.) - 1994 - New York: Fordham University Press.
Moral problems.James Rachels - 1971 - New York,: Harper & Row.
Ethics for modern life.Raziel Abelson & Marie-Louise Friquegnon (eds.) - 1975 - New York: St. Martin's Press.
Killing and letting die - putting the debate in context.John H. Chandler - 1990 - Australasian Journal of Philosophy 68 (4):420 – 431.

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