Comparing the two cases, why might one judge the man destroying nature in the original last man case to have done something wrong, but the man standing back watching Earth fall into the Sun not to have done anything wrong?
A) Inaction is never morally wrong, only action.
B) Nature has no value if it is about to be destroyed.
C) We find aggressive destruction to be incongruent with virtues.
D) There is no duty to protect, only a duty not to destroy.
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