Critics of the thesis that killing and letting die are morally
symmetric often attempt to support their position by appealing to our
responses to particular cases. Defenders of the thesis,
such as Tooley, Rachels, Bennett, Lichtenberg and Glover, have
argued that asymmetric intuitions arise in such cases only in
response to certain morally relevant properties which generally
apply more to cases of killing than to cases of letting die,
but which do not do so in every instance. I argue that this strategy
for accommodating asymmetric intuitions fails in the case of
one morally relevant property in particular, that of motive.