tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3891434218564545511.post6760806241179147346..comments2024-03-28T13:23:50.623-05:00Comments on Alexander Pruss's Blog: Five views on killing the innocentAlexander R Prusshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05989277655934827117noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3891434218564545511.post-65727090788906106132020-01-15T12:24:20.004-06:002020-01-15T12:24:20.004-06:00Alex
No, by "real chance" I mean a sign...Alex<br /><br />No, by "real chance" I mean a significant chance. The same would hold for cumulative cases. The combination of actions is only permissible when there is a real chance that the action will not result in the death of an innocent.<br />If there is a tiny threshold for one action, then it would not be permissible to combine this action in a way that would result in a chance that is too low.<br /><br />Anyway, this was only a hypothetical sixth option. In reality I think that non-consensual killing is never "permissible". But, unfortunately, it may be inevitable due the state of this world (which if designed is a result of poor design).Walter Van den Ackerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16101735542155226072noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3891434218564545511.post-39164275246849636662020-01-15T11:08:28.322-06:002020-01-15T11:08:28.322-06:00If by "real chance" you mean "proba...If by "real chance" you mean "probability bigger than zero", then this trivializes: every action anyone ever performs has a probability greater than zero of not resulting in the death of an innocent. (E.g., shooting an innocent in the head: people have survived headshots and anyway the gun might misfire.) <br /><br />If, however, you mean that there is some tiny threshold of probability, so that the action is permissible provided that the chance of no-death is at least, say, 0.000001, then we have the same cumulativeness problem as with loose carefulness. For if you perform two actions with no-death chance near the threshold, and the no-death chance of the combination will be below the threshold. Alexander R Prusshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05989277655934827117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3891434218564545511.post-89963209375357408482020-01-15T10:33:05.548-06:002020-01-15T10:33:05.548-06:00Alex
What about "moderate" carefulness?...Alex<br /><br />What about "moderate" carefulness?<br />It is permissible to perform an action to prevent worse evils only when there is a real chance that the action will not result in the death of an innocent.<br /><br />Walter Van den Ackerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16101735542155226072noreply@blogger.com