PHL275H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Egg Cell, Euthanasia, Fetus
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Nov 23 2017 phl275lec101: start with a uncontroversial observation that something is wrong killing adult humans, identify why is it wrong to kill us (adult human beings. Killing is messy someone must deal with the body and that is traumatic. Whatis the essence of the wrongness of killing: killing deprives someone of all the experiences activities projects and e(cid:374)jo(cid:455)(cid:373)e(cid:374)ts that (cid:449)ould ha(cid:448)e othe(cid:396)(cid:449)ise (cid:272)o(cid:374)stituted o(cid:374)e"s futu(cid:396)e, deprives them more than any other thing. 1) if depriving a person of a flo is what makes killing adult human beings presumptively wrong then it is presumptively wrong to kill any being with a flo. 2) depriving a person of a flo is what makes killing adult humans presumptively wrong. 3) it is presumptively wrong to kill any beign with a flo ( follows 1,2) 4) human fetuses are beings with a flo. 5) it is presumptively wrong to kill human fetuses (3,4) therefore.
