06-13-2023, 08:34 PM
(06-13-2023, 07:52 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: OK, yeah I'll concede the difference. I still think your decision to stop helping is an inaction on your part. Compelled action is the issue at hand. Continuing to help is an action.
I see your point. I think it could be argued inaction is a compelled action, but I do think the scenarios are different. Again, I wouldn’t impose the same moral penalty on a person who chose to let you fall off the cliff as the person who chose to push you off the cliff. I would at least argue that actively choosing to not help would be a compelled action. If I chose to stand there and watch you fall, I contributed to your death in an indirect way. If I choose to help you, only to reconsider in the middle of it and let you go, I have played a much more active role in your death, even if it doesn’t carry the same malicious intent as pushing you off to begin with.