The Doctrine of Doing and Allowing Claims That

question 1

Multiple Choice

The Doctrine of Doing and Allowing claims that

• A) if one is morally permitted to allow a harm, then one is permitted to cause that harm directly.
• B) if one is not morally permitted to do a harm, one is not permitted to allow that harm.
• C) it is always morally worse to allow harm than to do the same harm.
• D) it is always morally worse to do harm than to allow the same harm to occur.

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