I used the wording “cause less” which means the people enacting the ideal would not be able to kill people in order to prevent people from dying.
The wording doesn’t prevent that, but your elaboration here does. You’ve (roughly speaking) replaced a simple consequentlialist moral with a rather complex deontological one. The problems and potential failure modes change accordingly. Neither are an ideal against which I would gauge moral progress.
The wording doesn’t prevent that, but your elaboration here does. You’ve (roughly speaking) replaced a simple consequentlialist moral with a rather complex deontological one. The problems and potential failure modes change accordingly. Neither are an ideal against which I would gauge moral progress.