Acts and omissions doctrine and abortion.

Acts and omissions doctrine and abortion.

Acts and omissions revisited.

Acts and omissions: killing and letting die.

Gillon asks what, if any, moral importance resides in the distinction between killing and letting die in the context of medical care. He considers and rejects the acts and omissions doctrine, which claims that actions (killing) resulting in some undesirable end are in general morally worse than failures to act (allowing to die) that have the same result. He also refutes the argument that the ...

Moral judgment: Acts, omissions, and rules

3 Omission, action, and related issues 4 3.1 Determinants of omission bias . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 3.1.1 Perceived causality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 3.1.2 Physical proximity, contact, and personal force . . . . . . 6 3.1.3 Protected values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 3.2 Related biases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...

Acts and Omissions as Positive and Negative Causes