Killing to save lives
Suppose you are a very rich person and you have devoted your life to helping others. You become a social worker. It is very important to you to be clear about your motivation for doing what you do. You help each person because there is something good about them that moves you to fill goodwill toward him or her. Take, for example a person whom we shall pretend has the nickname "X": you help X because you have good will toward X. That is, on a certain level (not a romantic one) you love X simply because X is a fellow human being. We could call this sameness that you and S share "solidarity": it is your perception or apprehension of this real solidarity with X that motivates you to wish X well. For it seems to you that your goodwill toward X is inseparable from your desire for your own happiness. Let us contrast your attitude toward X with that of a social engineer who doesn't care for X in a personal way but does want to maximize pl...