PHIL-386 Chapter Notes - Chapter 27: Equal Protection Clause
5 Jun 2020
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There are still other cases in which individuals contribute to the causation of their own deaths by acts which are morally significant but which in no way execute proposals which are properly suicidal. The death could be avoided if the martyr were willing to do something believed wrong or to leave unfulfilled some duty which is accepted as compelling. But the martyr refuses to avoid death by compromise or evasion of duty. Such persons do only what they believe to be morally required; the consequent loss of their own lives is willingly accepted by martyrs, neither sought nor chosen as a means to anything. The martyr reasons somewhat as follows: i would like to please everyone and to stay alive. But they are demanding of me that i do what i believe to be wrong or that i omit doing what i believe to be my sacred mission. They threaten me with death if i do not meet their demands.
