• CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
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    23 days ago

    Should you feel bad for risking it, even if you get lucky? If when you cause something by accident you don’t feel as bad, you’re going partly by intentions, not actual outcomes.

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      21 days ago

      If I could have done something to prevent it, but chose not to, and someone died, I would feel just as bad as if I pulled the lever and killed someone.

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        21 days ago

        Yeah, same.

        On the other side, the law doesn’t work that way - almost killing someone and actually killing someone are treated very differently. That might partly be down to how hard it would be to prove a 1/4 expected manslaughter, though.