| Summary: | In both Tea Plant and Tea Spray, Beata prevents Andrew’s desire to drink the cup of tea from being satisfied, and in both cases, this is plausibly pro tanto wrong—that is, Beata’s action in each case possesses some feature or features that render it wrong, absent defeaters.2 Nevertheless, we suspect that many would judge there to be a moral difference between these cases—they would judge that the intervention in Tea Spray is in some respect more pro tanto wrong than the intervention in Tea Plant. That is to say, there is some feature of Beata’s action in Tea Spray that renders it wrong, absent defeaters, and that is either not possessed by her action in Tea Plant, or would be more easily defeated in that case.
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