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doing and allowing: a standalone construct

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Ethics

the principle that harming someone through action is harder to justify than allowing equal harm to happen.

In ethics, doing and allowing refers to the principle that harming someone through action is harder to justify than allowing equal harm to happen. This meaning comes from Quinn (1989) in The Philosophical Review.[1]

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  1. Quinn, W. S. (1989). Actions, Intentions, and Consequences: The Doctrine of Doing and Allowing. The Philosophical Review, 98(3), 287. https://doi.org/10.2307/2185021

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