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Originally Posted by Letum
That would make me responsible for road accidents in Croatia because I
haven't devoted my life to a road safety campaign there.
I could do that and it would save lives, but I haven't, even tho I know about it.
There is a infinite number of other things I haven't done that would prevent
murders, deaths, crime etc.
You might argue that I am only responsible if I fail to act to prevent a bad
deed that happens near to me, but that seams a little arbitrary.
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This is actually a very well-put, thought provoking point. But it doesn't really hold water when you think about it.
In ethics there must be a measure of reasonability, for one. But, more importantly, your argument faces a paradox which renders it existentially invalid: if you're saving the lives in Croatia, you'd not be saving lives in Zimbabwe. Because that violates logical reasonability and would create an infinate feedback loop preventing any and all morality, it just doesn't work.