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Schrödingers murder: You are both a murder and not a murder. You are not a murderer as you did not choose to kill a person, but as this can not continue forever you are also a murderer since it is quite certain that eventually someone will choose murder.

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Inucune@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Can you murder through innaction? By not pulling the lever, you haven’t changed the system.

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- HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Yes. You can. If you are responsible for pulling a lever to stop people from dying, and you don’t, that sounds very murdery to me
  
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  - Tja@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    IANAL, but not in the legal definition of murder…
    
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Credibly_Human@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Legally speaking, I think the only legally correct (very much not morally) correct thing to do is absolutely nothing whatsoever.

You might be required to call the authorities, but given that either option in theory may eventually lead to the loss of life I think you’d be most safe legally, if you didn’t touch a damn thing.

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