Saturday, August 11, 2012

You are the ethicist!

If someone is (for example) a witness to murder he could have prevented without harming himself, is he as guilty as the perpetrator? I know that is a rather simplistic situation, but I believe it is apropos to situations like the recent Penn State scandal. NAME AND LOCATION WITHHELD

How would you answer this?

Here's how the NY Times Ethicist answered:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/12/magazine/a-bystanders-crime.html

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