Undoubtedly these are interesting questions, and I don’t have much to contribute now. Your thought experiment reminds me of Timmerman’s Drowning Children case from “Sometimes there is nothing wrong with letting a child drown”. Timmerman argues with this case that we should reject the strong conclusion from “Famine, Affluence, and Morality”.
Undoubtedly these are interesting questions, and I don’t have much to contribute now. Your thought experiment reminds me of Timmerman’s Drowning Children case from “Sometimes there is nothing wrong with letting a child drown”. Timmerman argues with this case that we should reject the strong conclusion from “Famine, Affluence, and Morality”.