Increasing the risk that someone will die without increasing the risk that you will kill them

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 107 (2):395-412 (2022)
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I consider cases where you increase the risk that, e.g., someone will die, without increasing the risk that you will kill them: in particular, cases in which that increasing of risk is accompanied by a decreasing of risk of the same degree such that the risk imposition has been offset. I defend the moral legitimacy of such offsetting, including carbon-offsetting.

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Thomas Byrne
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