PHLB09H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Master Sergeant, Tonne, Sex Selection
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In the article he almost backtracks on his argument but the idea is you cant coerce ppl into making a particular decision. 2 kinds of harms: consequentialist harm access to services or discrimination. Makes the lives of ppl with disabilities worst when we select against ppl of disability from coming into existence: non-consequentialist harm select against disability; also a negative imagine being sent by selecting against disability. Certain lives are inferior to other lives. The de facto moral status is being reduced in some way even tho no one can change the proper moral status of a person: de facto moral status can be change, but proper moral cant, symbolically harming people. The mere stereotype can be a moral harm against a group of people (cid:862)(cid:449)o(cid:373)e(cid:374) are irratio(cid:374)al(cid:863: social categorization/dualistic logic creates hierarchies. To establish that this kind of harm occurs give an account of how we create dualistic hierarchies within our conceptual frameworks.
