Intricate Ethics : Rights, Responsibilities, and Permissible Harm: Rights, Responsibilities, and Permissible HarmIn Intricate Ethics, Kamm questions the moral importance of some non-consequentialist distinctions and then introduces and argues for the moral importance of other distinctions. The first section discusses nonconsequentialist ethical theory and the trolley problem; the second deals with the notions of moral status and rights; the third takes up the issues of responsibility and complicity and the possible moral significance of distance; and the fourth section analyzes the views of others in the non-consequentialist and consequentialist camps. |
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agent argued argument believe benefit bomb bystander Captain causal cause chapter claim conflict consequentialist consider context contrast death Derek Parfit discussion distance duty to aid equal chance ex ante example factors foresee give greater number harm harming/not-aiding distinction Hence impermissible implies intend interests involve Jim’s justify Kahneman killing and letting Lazy Susan lesser evil Loop means moral responsibility moral significance negative rights no-gain noncausal flip side nonconsequentialist not-aiding obligation one’s order to save people’s permissible permissibly person Peter Unger positive rights possible prevent principle problem produce Prospect Theory protophysical quadriplegia Quinn reason redirect the trolley rescue save the five Scanlon sense side effect Singer someone’s stop the trolley stranger structural equivalent suggests supererogatory Suppose theory Thomas Nagel Thomas Scanlon threat Tiebreaker track transgress trolley headed Trolley Problem true turning the trolley Unger University Press victim violate worse wrong