Ethics and Values / Unit 8 Ethics 350 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Bare-Difference Argument
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The idea
The bare-difference argument: strip away every other factor, and killing versus letting die shows no moral difference by itself — outcomes and intentions carry the weight.
In practice
Two uncles, one inheritance: one drowns his nephew; one watches the nephew drown. Letting die saved the second nothing — which was the argument's point.
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