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Making Sense of Foundations of Morality

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The Difference Between Act and Omission

I do know of cases where people will say, you know, we can't actually take active steps to end life. And so then the baby will suffer a lingering death from pneumonia over days or maybe even a couple of weeks. I'm not going to say that it shouldn't be at all morally salient because there are questions in what governments do and how they set examples. But I do think it's very serious that governments allow people to die when they could prevent them.

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