Samvega@lemmy.blahaj.zone to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoThis mother made six attempts to raise the alarm about her sick toddler. Doctors told her he’d be fine. They were fatally wrongwww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square30fedilinkarrow-up1245arrow-down112
arrow-up1233arrow-down1external-linkThis mother made six attempts to raise the alarm about her sick toddler. Doctors told her he’d be fine. They were fatally wrongwww.theguardian.comSamvega@lemmy.blahaj.zone to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square30fedilink
minus-squarecatloaf@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 months agoInaction can be causative. For example, to simplify the scenario into the trolley problem, with one person on the current track, and no people on the other track, if you choose not to pull the lever, you have caused that person’s death.
minus-squareStevelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down7·edit-22 months agoI’m specifically saying that’s not true. You failed to prevent the death. Even with the lever being a working break. You’d be correctly blamed for it. But you still didn’t cause it. Failure to fulfill a “what if” scenario you imagined, doesn’t create a cause.
Inaction can be causative. For example, to simplify the scenario into the trolley problem, with one person on the current track, and no people on the other track, if you choose not to pull the lever, you have caused that person’s death.
I’m specifically saying that’s not true. You failed to prevent the death.
Even with the lever being a working break. You’d be correctly blamed for it. But you still didn’t cause it.
Failure to fulfill a “what if” scenario you imagined, doesn’t create a cause.