PHL275H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Side Effect
Document Summary
Morally more objectionable to bring about a bad consequence by something you actively do, then by allowing a bad thing to naturally happen. In organ example, when you let 5 die, you don"t intend them to die. Response to this: doesn"t work for sheriff example because if you let it happen, people would get killed. Then consequences are either 5 ppl get killed or you kill 1 person. The distinction between what one does and what one allows to happen is not the difference between foreseeing and intending. Do/forsee: trolley, tactical bombing, but gas and car-hospital-dudeonfloor not okay. Allow/intend: intentionally allow kid to die (want inheritance) How important is the doing/allowing distinction if in trolley case, it"s not objectionable to turn trolley, (even though you"re doing it)
