-1- wrote: ↑Fri Feb 01, 2019 5:45 pm
"It does me harm if I starve my children to death, myself, and my wife. But there is only enough bread in this community to feed us, or else another family, but not both. Is it more harmful to starve ourselves, or is it more harmful to kill the other family in their sleep to make sure that we won't starve to death?"
You can't avoid doing harm. That's the basic bottom line and bottom hitter of "DO NO HARM".
If you don't murder your neighbours: how many people will die?
You, your wife and your child.
Body count: 3
Cause of death: starvation.
If you murder your neighbours: how many people will die?
Your neighbour, his wife, his child.
Body count: 3
Cause of death: murder.
Both outcomes are equally shit. Unless you think starvation is a better way to go than murder (or vice versa) you have no argument!
You seem to be arguing this from a perspective in which "agency" e.g your choice to murder your neighbours matters. It doesn't!
You had control over who dies, not over how many people die.
No-harm went out the window long before you had to make a choice. Kobayashi Maru.