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    Supports→A rescuer may cut the rope connecting themselves to a victim who is about to fall to their death, even though doing so accelerates the victim's death.

    Cutting the rope accelerates the victim's death but is not the act that causes the death that would not otherwise occur.

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    Fifth, our agency is said not to be involved in mere accelerations of evils about to happen anyway, as opposed to causing such evils by doing acts necessary for such evils to occur (G. Williams 1961; Brody 1996). Thus, when a victim is about to fall to his death anyway, dragging a rescuer with him too, the rescuer may cut the rope connecting them. Rescuer is accelerating, but not causing, the death that was about to occur anyway.

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