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Making Sense of Foundations of Morality

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The Moral Distinction Between Killing and Letting Die

The distinction between killing and letting die is not itself of great intrinsic significance, he says. It may be a marker for other things of more significance like it may be a markers for motives, the author adds. In both cases, your intention is equally good, I would say: to bring about the death of the child. So the means is really irrelevant in both cases,. But legally, one is murder and the other is well, maybe it's slightly gray in some countries.

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