CAS PH 251 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Homo Sapiens, Rational Agent, Moral Rights
20 Nov 2018
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To realize: not just about abortion, the philosophy behind abortion applies to all of morality. Whether or not fetus has right to life. Property of being human being, human baby, potentially becoming a human being, genetic homo- sapiens. Rational agent, member of moral community- recognize obligations and rights, personhood, Pleasure or pain felt gives right to not suffer but does not support the right to life? if you could kill someone painless: principles. Morally wrong to kill human life, or human baby or anything that can become a human baby. Principles advocated by pro-choicers only wrong to kill persons, with rationality, wrong to kill members of moral community. This leads to absurd consequences: absurd consequences. If you"re talking about genetically human life, what about cell-tissue cultures in the lab, clearly that"s not murder, you"re just destroying cell tissue culture. Too narrow like no including mentally disabled people and infants who haven"t developed yet.
