(September 14, 2012 at 2:07 pm)liam Wrote: I understood your point, perhaps I was rather unclear in my response. Let me try again with this one.
The issue is that it is only unethical If this is the case, yet there are many counter-examples to this. For example, a fireman is acting dangerously when he rescues an individual from a burning building (an example I'm partial to recently for some reason), yet this would not be considered immoral, implying a difference between danger and immorality.
And that is the point I was addressing. Under that ethical theory, the fireman would be considered immoral as well - unless he can show that the risk was, in fact, minimal.