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You Don't Have to Do What's Best! (A problem for consequentialists and other teleologists)
In Mark Timmons (ed.), Oxford Studies in Normative Ethics. Oxford University Press (2011)
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How should deontologists concerned with the ethics of killing apply their moral theory when we don’t know all the facts relevant to the permissibility of our action? Though the stakes couldn’t be higher, and uncertainty is endemic where killing is concerned, few deontologists have an answer to this question. In this paper I canvass two possibilities: that we should apply a threshold standard, equivalent to the ‘beyond a reasonable doubt’ standard applied for criminal punishment; and that we should fit our (...) |