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But there's a difference between avoiding helping someone and intentionally taking action to kill someone.


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There's a difference between stopping an action at a societal level, and targeting an individual through any means necessary.

There's quite a difference between actually killing somebody and allowing them to kill themselves in a painless/peaceful manner - e.g. providing them access to drugs/devices that they have to choose to use themselves.

Yet it reflects the natural reaction of not deliberately killing someone for the greater good, because people judge that more evil than the neutral position of not intervening.

Also, if you don't intervene, you don't have to answer to the police about why you deliberately killed a man. Murder is murder, even if your intentions were good.


False equivalence. Killing something and trying to stop someone from killing something is not the same.

If you know that people will die, but are simply indifferent to it, the difference between that and actively wishing to murder is at least arguably academic. You are killing people with your choices in either case.

The moral context is very different when we're talking about killing others rather than yourself by your actions.

There's a distinction between "killing" and "being killed". Both should be avoided for different reasons.

Killing other people is significantly different from killing oneself.

Morally, you're also killing someone with no intent on harming you who isn't an immediate threat. Sure, its not quite straightforwardly wrong, but it sure isn't right.

"If you don't want someone to kill you for something you're doing, maybe you shouldn't be doing it."

If I'd pay a hit-man to kill a donor I wouldn't get away with it, despite the urgency. If I knowingly visit a country who kills people for donation I am an accomplice. Where I come from this has the same term as the deed itself.

Outside being attacked you can't kill people for self-preservation.


Trying to kill someone because they beat you in a game is significantly more evil than trying to kill someone because you mistakenly believed they posed a threat to human life.

Feeling less bad when someone dies is not the same as thinking it's ok to kill them.

Killing is different from being killed.

It's not a murderer's responsibility to stop themselves from murdering people. Full stop.

This is like saying murders can be prevented by simply telling wouldbe-murderers not to murder.

Please don't kill anyone vs. killing is against the law and you'll go to jail if you do it.

I know which one works best.


Prohibitions on murder aren't predicated on an expectation of not being murdered. Entirely different dynamic.

The distinction between killing people and ordering people to kill people.
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