Yeah, I guess my point with this thread is pretty vague. I made it as an offshoot of Dianeva's Moral Questions thread, because too many people there were saying that the most moral thing to do in each situation was to just not take any action at all, even when it meant more people would die. It seemed to me like they were just saying as long as you don't act then you can't be held responsible, but my point was that the action in that case is internal - it's deciding who dies, and the physical action isn't the important thing.

This kind of thinking to me seems tied in with the victimization cults - that a person who takes no action cannot be held accountable for anything, whereas if you take action then you are. To me this is reprehensible. Sometimes doing nothing IS an action!

I was getting a strong whiff of leftist/Christian victim status on that thread, so I started this one in response.