Don Marquis discusses in his article that killing another human being is wrong not because of what may happen to the victim’s family or friends, but because of the effect it has on the victim himself. Marquis goes on to say that killing is wrong because it takes away from the victim the opportunities that lie ahead. Furthermore, killing another person takes away all the things that the victim was valuing, or could value in the future. One might argue that killing may be moral if the victim does not value his or her own life. For example, many people suffering from depression do not value life, and do not believe that they could value life again in the future. Also, Marquis’s theory states that it is wrong to kill an actual being with a potential
