no. I think that if someone wants to die then, by letting them, it isn't murder, it just means that it's their time. You can't save everyone

though I also think that assisted suicide isn't murder so I might not be the one to ask

i agree with you hailli.

well one is passive and one is active, so no. but it's far more complicated than that.

take philosophy 355.

i've taken it actually, last summer

i seem to be the only person who thinks that letting someone die and killing them are morally equivalent actions

my brother and i had a big debate about it last night

what if someone was stuck on a vent in a hospital and basically a vegetable? by taking them off the vent, you are letting them die, but do

they really have a life while they are on it? I don't think that that is murder

nah, i agree with the class. if you can't help someone dying you are not morally responsible. but choosing to kill someone you are.

you are the engineer on a train headed for a fork in the tracks, on the path the train initially is in, there is a van on the tracks

if you pull the lever and switch the tracks, the train will take a path that will just hit one guy asleep on the tracks. what do you do?

you just summed up phil 355.

(the van is full of people)

hit the guy who is sleeping on the tracks. Darwin says he deserves it. And, though the driver of the van may deserve it, the others might

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