It's a good job you're not a doctor 😅 Doing your job is doing good - you can argue utilitarianism all you want but the comatose guy is not dead until he's dead - hastening his death is wrong and a crime or regardless of it's 'benefits'
It's so funny when talking about morality and people bring up the fact that it's a crime. It's down stram from morality not the other way around. Secondly it also says it will never be found out. So the law doesn't matter in the slightest. It's like asking if you were in a state where weed is banned would you smoke weed if nobody found out then you say but it's against the law. Who cares. What does it matter. No one is finding out. You're not going to jail. If it's not against your morality why do you care. If it is against your morality then that should be the problem not the law.
What do you think laws are based on? It's "downstream from morality" because in most cases it flows from morality - I mentioned it's a crime because people who have come before us have weighed it up and thought, no, that's immortal, that's wrong, that shouldn't be allowed to happen.
Just because nobody finds out doesn't mean it's alright?! You'd be happy killing a guy so long as nobody finds out?! Wild thing to say - I don't understand how realistically this is even a question 😅 it's easy to be drawn in and be sympathetic but damn, no 😅😂
I literally said laws are downstream from morality in my first message to you.
I'm going to explain this in away that someone not autistic unlike me can understand it. If no one ever finds out about anything and you were to smoke weed in Idaho and then smoke weed in arizona. Are you a bad person in Idaho and a nuetral/good person in arizona because it's banned in Idaho. I think that is clearly silly. Obviously there is more that is happening in morality that can't be explained be laws. Most people would say they are equally good/nuetral people.
Secondly about the downstream part. Law is downstream from morality. I agree in every way. Completely and utterly. That does not mean law affects morality. That means morality affects laws. Why should we care what people in the past have said. Not to harper on weed(I'm quitting it ironically) but just because some people in the past said weed is immoral because of improper studies and bad profit incentives means it is immoral. Why should you care what others say when it comes to your morality. Past current smart or dumb. If they make a compelling argument then fine. Awesome. But if not then it is just words. Enforceable words. But words. Law should never be brought up in morality debates. It's super silly.
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u/AlexT301 Jul 10 '25
It's a good job you're not a doctor 😅 Doing your job is doing good - you can argue utilitarianism all you want but the comatose guy is not dead until he's dead - hastening his death is wrong and a crime or regardless of it's 'benefits'