Q&A: Morality
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Morality
Question
I’d be happy to sharpen a question I didn’t understand: when I intentionally hurt my friend, but in truth he really doesn’t care—let’s assume such a case exists—or for example, killing a person, but it turns out after the fact that he wanted to die, would that still not be considered an anti-moral act?
Answer
If you knew in advance and were complying with his request to kill him, there is nothing immoral about that. But if you killed him without knowing that, and it only became clear retroactively, that is obviously immoral. The morality of an act is a function of intentions, not of results.