PHILOS 2D03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Abortion Debate, Thought Experiment, Fetus
12 Dec 2018
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Dan marquis: observes that two most popular ways to argue about abortion are, classic pro-life argument, classic pro-choice argument too challenging to find exact point when bundle of human tissue/cells becomes a. The wrong of killing: it dehumanizes the killer, marquis says yes, definitely dehumanizes you to kill another human being. If you"re a kantian and you kill someone, you"re violating their autonomy and eliminating their capacity for rational agency. A kantian says the fact that you"re removing an autonomous being from the. Marquis responds to this: consider the following thought experiment: situation where you"re having such a good time you didn"t want to fall asleep. You were doing something that you valued, so you didn"t want to fall asleep bc you were missing out on the thing you care about. If you want to know whats wrong with killing, you should ponder this thought experiment.
