PHL240H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Fetus, Counterexample, Egalitarianism
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Singer: simple capacities - sentience (warren"s way of defining consciousness) (mere consciousness, capacity for pleasure and pain) Marquis: potential to have flo (morally acceptable to kill someone in a vegetative state, because they do not have the capacity for happiness) Marquis: everything with a future like ours has the same right to life as us, fetuses have futures like ours, therefore, fetuses have the same right to life as us (adults). (premis 1) Right to life" = what makes it wrong to kill us. Flo account says it"s wrong to kill us b/c it deprives us of our future. So, anything with flo will be wrong to kill for same reason. If the fetus is left alone then it will be able to have the same life as an adult. An adult"s life develops from a fetus, rather than independent of it. Marquis: no, nothing is deprived of flo. Sperm and egg can"t both results in one thing after development.
