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>My question was whether it's just as immoral a choice to not use one's potential to help people as it is to use one's talent to overtly harm people. Is the an

• unclebucknasty 9y ago
  The suggestion that it might be obvious is central to the question and what makes it interesting (to me). Because, yes, it would seem obvious. >It's the difference between negligence and pre-meditation/mens rea. a) you're using legal definitions when the question is about morality and b) it's not negligence to actively choose one path over another. It's simply making a decision, and I was asking if that decision can be considered a moral one. Started off as a philosophical question, but seems to have gone a bit literal. Oh well, it happens.
  • wu-ikkyu 9y ago
    >a) you're using legal definitions when the question is about morality You don't think the legal differences between those two things were based on perceived immorality?