I don’t see how it is slippery at all. Instead, it seems that you have simply jumped off the slope.
If you were tempted to save the orphans you have some properties that lead to not killing orphans. You likely share some properties with compassionate, moral people.
That doesn’t make you compassionate or moral. I’m often tempted to murder people by cutting out their heart and shoving it into their mouth.
This doesn’t make me a murderer, but it does mean I have some properties characteristic of murderers.
I don’t see how it is slippery at all. Instead, it seems that you have simply jumped off the slope.
If you were tempted to save the orphans you have some properties that lead to not killing orphans. You likely share some properties with compassionate, moral people.
That doesn’t make you compassionate or moral. I’m often tempted to murder people by cutting out their heart and shoving it into their mouth.
This doesn’t make me a murderer, but it does mean I have some properties characteristic of murderers.