BIOL 2P95 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Reductio Ad Absurdum, Nippon Tv, Judith Jarvis Thomson
23 Apr 2018
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If not consistency employed, the process could last much longer than a few weeks, integrity performative contradiction: terminal sedation: heavy doses of harbituates are given to the patient while the patient is denied hydration. Is humanity defined by biological properties, psychological properties, or both: the vast majority of human beings hold the taking of human life is wrong, except in very special circumstances (defending oneself, war, etc. ). Therefore, it seems to be a false analogy: legal issues concerning abortion in canada, unlike the united states, an abortion can be performed at any time during a woman"s pregnancy. Canada. : thomson first puts forward the popular argument against abortion". 306: this example purports to show that in the case of rape, abortion is morally justifiable. & demonstrates that it logically leads to an abortion: consensual sex & pregnancy by accident, the seed house analogy (pg 310).
