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Doing and Allowing Harm
“Is causing a loss worse than failing to prevent an equivalent loss?”
01 / SUMMARY
In short
The distinction between doing harm and allowing it appears in debates about duties, rescue, and responsibility. Philosophers dispute both how to draw it and whether it always matters morally.
03 / SCENE
In the wild
Deliberately destroying someone's medicine differs from refusing to share your own, even if both choices end the same way.
04 / LIMIT
The limit
An omission is not morally neutral merely because it is passive; it may breach a duty of aid or care.
FINAL NOTE
What remains
Inspect the prior relationship, control, and duty—not only the visible bodily movement.