Recent work by Ingmar Persson and Jason Hanna has posed an interesting new challenge for deontologists: How can they account for so-called cases of letting oneself do harm? In this article, I argue that cases of letting oneself do harm are structurally similar to real-world cases such as climate change, and that deontologists need an account of the moral status of these cases to provide moral guidance in real-world cases. I then explore different ways in which deontologists can solve this challenge and argue that the most promising way to conceive of cases of letting oneself do harm is as nonstandard cases of allowing harm, supplemented with an additional argument for the moral relevance of one's own agency. The upshot is that cases of letting oneself do harm are both more theoretically challenging and practically important than has been acknowledged.

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让气候变化

Ingmar Persson 和 Jason Hanna 最近的工作对义务论者提出了一个有趣的新挑战：他们如何解释所谓的让自己造成伤害的案例？在本文中，我认为让自己造成伤害的案例在结构上与气候变化等现实世界的案例相似，并且道义学家需要对这些案例的道德状况进行说明，以便在现实世界的案例中提供道德指导。然后，我探讨了道义论者可以解决这一挑战的不同方式，并认为设想让自己造成伤害的案例的最有希望的方式是作为允许伤害的非标准案例，并补充一个关于自己机构的道德相关性的额外论据。