Critical Notice: Why Killing Is Not Always Worse—and Is Sometimes Better—Than Letting Die

The philosophical debate over the moral difference between killing and letting die has obvious relevance for the contemporary public debate over voluntary euthanasia. Winston Nesbitt claims to have shown that killing someone is, other things being equal, always worse than allowing someone to die. Bu...

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Main Author: Kuhse, Helga (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: Cambridge Univ. Press 1998
In: Cambridge quarterly of healthcare ethics
Year: 1998, Volume: 7, Issue: 4, Pages: 371-374
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