Godschild Wrote:Is not saving the person's life morally wrong? Are we obligated to save someone's life. What if I just shot the offender, wouldn't that solve the problem, I did not have to lie and I did not murder because it would be deemed a defensive killing, right?
With all that said which is probably not much why don't you give us a description of the situation, this way we will have more ground to argue and can do away with the Ps and Qs of it all. In other words what was the lie you told?
Usually in philosophy, a scenario is given with the least amount of information i.e. variables. That way, the thing we're trying to analyse (in this case, DCT) can be analysed without too many "what ifs".
The scenario is simply this: you are given a chance to save someone's life by lying. For the sake of argumentation, let's say the lie was telling the killer that the victim was somewhere else, upon being asked for that information. In the OP, I showed that either we choose to tell the truth because otherwise we're immoral according to DCT OR we lie because we think that is the right thing to do and therefore it logically follows that DCT can't be true given that p and "if p then q".
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it" ~ Aristotle
