Michael, I don’t see how the argument is correct. It would help me understand your point of view better if you gave me your opinion on this: If I donate enough for an effective charity to save a person’s life, and I then go on to shoot dead someone else because I don’t like them, is what I’ve done morally neutral on the whole? And if not, how is that different from the original argument?
As you can see, I don’t think that act and omission are the same, but does our different point of view boil down to nothing more than that? I’m really trying to understand.
Michael, I don’t see how the argument is correct. It would help me understand your point of view better if you gave me your opinion on this: If I donate enough for an effective charity to save a person’s life, and I then go on to shoot dead someone else because I don’t like them, is what I’ve done morally neutral on the whole? And if not, how is that different from the original argument? As you can see, I don’t think that act and omission are the same, but does our different point of view boil down to nothing more than that? I’m really trying to understand.
I don’t endorse the argument I gave, I was just suggesting a possible counter-argument. I don’t know that I can do a good job of arguing for it.