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[Serious] Moral Obligations toward Possible Worlds
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RE: Moral Obligations toward Possible Worlds
(May 8, 2021 at 2:13 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: Hard, hard no.  I don't see it that way - in my own experience of doing necessary and unnecessary harm - both are equivalent in my own repugnance.  One may be necessary, the other not, but a necessary evil is still evil - I feel pretty much the same in either case.

So let me see if I understand you correctly. Are you saying that harm which is necessary is equally immoral to harm that is unnecessary, that if I give my daughter a vaccine to save her from getting cancer, what I'm doing is just as immoral as if I subjected my daughter to that pain for no reason at all?
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RE: Moral Obligations toward Possible Worlds - by Angrboda - May 8, 2021 at 2:21 pm

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