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Is Killing No Worse Than Letting Die?
Author(s) -
NESBITT WINSTON
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
journal of applied philosophy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.339
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 1468-5930
pISSN - 0264-3758
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-5930.1995.tb00124.x
Subject(s) - feature (linguistics) , wish , context (archaeology) , die (integrated circuit) , right to die , epistemology , sociology , philosophy , computer science , law , political science , history , linguistics , archaeology , anthropology , operating system
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.