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eumaximizer4 karma

Hard to say. According to this survey---in which I selected normative ethicists and not philosophers generally---23% are consequentialists and 35% are deontologists. Nearly all the former will agree with you, but most of the latter will disagree. I think the virtue ethicists will also tend to disagree with you, but it's hard to say about the rest. For what it's worth, most of the moral philosophers I know don't think there's much of a morally significant distinction between killing and letting die, but that's a skewed sample.

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When I was a post-doc at Oxford, I was told by the landlady that you used to live in the flat that I rented from her. She said that you had gone through some bad break up or something at the time and got lots of flowers and also that her husband agreed with you about monetary policy. Did you have a good time living there despite the apparently horrible break up? And any advice for a young academic just starting his first tenure-track job?