Covering James Rachels’ argument against the distinction between killing and letting die in Bioethics this semester led to an interesting argument today. I’ve always thought Rachels’ thought experiment was pretty ingeniously designed to isolate the moral relevance of killing versus letting die. But really the main taget of his argument has to be the physician. [...]
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