Not All Killings Are Equally Wrong

Utilitas 31 (4):378–394 (2019)
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Abstract

Many people believe that the wrongness of killing a person does not depend on factors like her age, condition, or how much she has to lose by dying – a view Jeff McMahan calls the ‘Equal Wrongness Thesis’. This article argues that we should reject the Equal Wrongness Thesis on the basis of the moral equivalence between killing a person and knocking her unconscious.

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Todd Karhu
King's College London

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