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[Serious] Moral Obligations toward Possible Worlds
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RE: Moral Obligations toward Possible Worlds
(May 8, 2021 at 1:06 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: My own fits the bill for the latter, I suppose?  You've done the same harm to any man you kill.   They're equally dead.  You may have better or worse reasons to kill and people may have reasons to think better or worse of you for having done it - modification and desert.  In either case, however, you're doing the same thing.  Killing.  The harm that you have done is the same.  Even the intent to specific harm was the same.  You intended to kill - and did kill.

Morally significant harm. Yes, killing is killing. Don't be dense.
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RE: Moral Obligations toward Possible Worlds - by Angrboda - May 8, 2021 at 1:11 pm

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