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If you want to make something evil appear good, 𝙧𝙚𝙙𝙚𝙨𝙘𝙧𝙞𝙗𝙚 it.
We could just as well describe “murdering someone who has an organ I need to live” as “healthcare.”
I would, after all, be caring for my health in doing that.
We could just as well describe “murdering someone who has an organ I need to live” as “healthcare.”
I would, after all, be caring for my health in doing that.
An example from Elizabeth Anscombe: A man is operating a pump, moving his arm and the pump lever up and down. Doing this is causing poison to be pumped into a town’s water supply.
What is RELEVANT is that his action CAN BE correctly described as “poisoning the inhabitants.”
In is NOT RELEVANT that his action can be describe otherwise than as “poisoning the inhabitants” e.g. simply as “moving his arm up and down.”
In is NOT RELEVANT that his action can be describe otherwise than as “poisoning the inhabitants” e.g. simply as “moving his arm up and down.”
