PHIL 356 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Fetus
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There is a cat with the potentiality for personhood. ): there is no morally relevant different between intentionally refraining from bringing about a result + intentionally making a small effort to prevent this result from occurring provided that the motivation is the same in both case. Principle: refraining from injecting a cat with p. p. chemical is morally equivalent to injecting a neutralizing chemical in a cat with the potentiality for personhood. So, 2) refraining from injecting the p. p. chemical + killing the cat is morally equivalent to inject the neutralizing chemical + killing the cat. So, 3) killing an ordinary cat is morally equivalent to killing a cat with the potentiality for personhood: killing an ordinary cat is not the moral equivalent of murder. Read the article by jims (article for monday) If you"re going to have a right to something, you have to have the capacity to desire it.
