You make some good points, but your examples of negative actions are uniformly terrible. Mainly because there are no obvious positive action alternatives to hospices, borders, legislated economic equality etc. and yet you make it sound like they exist. There are other approaches, definitely, but they are fraught with different issues.
I agree my examples are terrible. Alternatives would be helpful, if you’ve got any.
In each of the cases I mention, I expect doing nothing would be better than performing the action relevant actors in our society perform(ed). I am dissatisfied with the particular examples I gave because I also suspect many like you would disagree due to what I see as a misapplication of ethical principles. I also don’t think they highlight the primary point I’m trying to make, except the hospice example. Though they may be useful for intuition building, which is why I include them.
You make some good points, but your examples of negative actions are uniformly terrible. Mainly because there are no obvious positive action alternatives to hospices, borders, legislated economic equality etc. and yet you make it sound like they exist. There are other approaches, definitely, but they are fraught with different issues.
I agree my examples are terrible. Alternatives would be helpful, if you’ve got any.
In each of the cases I mention, I expect doing nothing would be better than performing the action relevant actors in our society perform(ed). I am dissatisfied with the particular examples I gave because I also suspect many like you would disagree due to what I see as a misapplication of ethical principles. I also don’t think they highlight the primary point I’m trying to make, except the hospice example. Though they may be useful for intuition building, which is why I include them.