Must Consequentialists Kill?

Journal of Philosophy 115 (2):92-105 (2018)
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Argues that the ethics of killing and saving lives is best described by agent-neutral consequentialism, not by appeal to agent-centred restrictions. It does not follow that killings are worse than accidental deaths or that you should kill one to prevent more killings. The upshot is a puzzle about killing and letting die.

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10.5840/jphil201811525

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Kieran Setiya
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