What Role Does the Distinction Between Killing Someone and Allowing

question 464

Multiple Choice

What role does the distinction between killing someone and allowing someone to die play in Nell's paper?

• A) Nell's main thesis is that there is a morally relevant distinction between killing someone and allowing someone to die.
• B) Nell argues that famine deaths are cases of killing, which we have duties to prevent, and not simply of allowing someone to die, which we have no duties to prevent.
• C) Nell argues that under sufficiency situations, famine deaths mean we are killing people by not distributing resources properly, whereas under scarcity situations, famine deaths are simply cases of letting people die.
• D) Nell claims that although killing someone and allowing some to die are distinct, we have duties both to not kill people and to not allow people to die.

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