scholarly journals The Rejection of Consequentializing

2021 ◽  
Vol 118 (2) ◽  
pp. 79-96
Author(s):  
Daniel Muñoz ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Killing And Letting Die ◽  
Letting Die

Consequentialists say we may always promote the good. Deontologists object: not if that means killing one to save five. “Consequentializers” reply: this act is wrong, but it is not for the best, since killing is worse than letting die. I argue that this reply undercuts the “compellingness” of consequentialism, which comes from an outcome-based view of action that collapses the distinction between killing and letting die.

Giving Useful but Not Well-Understood Ideas Their Due

2019 ◽  
Vol 44 (6) ◽  
pp. 663-676
Author(s):  
Adam Omelianchuk
Keyword(s):  
Pregnant Woman ◽  
Killing And Letting Die ◽  
Letting Die ◽  
The Dead ◽  
The Difference

AbstractIn this paper, I introduce the ideas to be discussed in the articles of this journal with reference to an imaginary case involving a pregnant woman declared dead on the basis of neurological criteria. I highlight the fact that although these ideas have proved useful for advancing certain claims in bioethical debates, their implications are not always well understood and may complicate our arguments. The ideas to be discussed are (1) an ethic internal to the profession of medicine; (2) the difference between killing and letting die; (3) the organism as a whole; and (4) the “lives” and interests of the dead.

scholarly journals Acts and omissions, killing and letting die.

BMJ ◽  
1986 ◽  
Vol 292 (6513) ◽  
pp. 126-127 ◽  
Author(s):  
R Gillon
Keyword(s):  
Killing And Letting Die ◽  
Letting Die

Ignorance, Beneficence, and Rights

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 56-74
Author(s):  
Kieran Setiya
Keyword(s):  
Turn On ◽  
Killing And Letting Die ◽  
Letting Die

I argue that ignorance of who will die makes a difference to the ethics of killing. It follows that reasons are subject to ‘specificity’: it can be rational to respond more strongly to facts that provide us with reasons than to the fact that such reasons exist. In the case of killing and letting die, these reasons are distinctively particular: they turn on personal acquaintance. The theory of rights must be, in part, a theory of this relation.

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