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In United States law, depraved-heart murder, also known as depraved-indifference murder, is a type of murder where an individual acts with a "depraved indifference" to human life and where such acts result in a death, despite that individual not explicitly intending to kill. In a depraved-heart murder, defendants commit an act even though they know their act runs an unusually high risk of causing death or serious bodily harm to a person. If the risk of death or bodily harm is great enough, ignoring it demonstrates a "depraved indifference" to human life and the resulting death is considered to have been committed with malice aforethought.

why wouldn't you show the whole paragraph?

this is cherrypicking

It ["depraved heart" murder] is the form [of murder] that establishes that the wilful doing of a dangerous and reckless act with wanton indifference to the consequences and perils involved is just as blameworthy, and just as worthy of punishment, when the harmful result ensues as is the express intent to kill itself. This highly blameworthy state of mind is not one of mere negligence... It is not merely one even of gross criminal negligence... It involves rather the deliberate perpetration of a knowingly dangerous act with reckless and wanton unconcern and indifference as to whether anyone is harmed or not.

except that you're not locked in a booth, so there actually are things you can do besides pull a lever.

no, you don't need to accept it.

it is immoral to flip the switch and murder someone. that doesn't make the situation acceptable

but they have no responsibility for the circumstances.

you can't murder through inaction, unless words don't mean anything.

but some of them choose to become murderers

the whole damn trolley problem thing

doesn't have an answer. it's a thought experiment to expose your personal ethics. deontologists never touch the switch.

you can't be responsible for something you didn't cause. that's not how responsibility works.

voting makes them responsible for the bodies.