In one book, this philosopher discussed whether the Chancellor of the Exchequer would be killing the elderly by failing to raise old-age pensions. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this author of Causing Death and Saving Lives. This English philosopher made an early intervention on the ethics of gene editing in his 1984 book What Sort of People Should There Be?
ANSWER: Jonathan Glover
[10m] In Causing Death, Glover argues that side effects alone do not allow us to say that killing is worse than this act of omission. Philippa Foot used the notion of “fatal sequences” to argue that killing is worse than this omission.
ANSWER: letting die [or allowing someone to die]
[10e] Glover also cites Peter Singer’s argument that the reasons for saving a “Bengali whose name I shall never know” are the same as those requiring one to risk ruining their clothes in order to save a child from this fate.
ANSWER: drowning in a shallow pond
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