PHIL 321 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Human Genome
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Reflective equilibrium: there are no sacred counts, everything can be rejected. Astrid: astronaut, flying into space on one way trip. Moral intentions, theoretical ideas, input (empirical) when you have all of these and they all matter, but there are conflicts, you must bring them into equilibrium to resolve them. Use a cat as a dartboard, if animals are not rational, it doesn"t matter. Grant moral rights to anything that is subject to a life, to reflection equilibrium in animals and non-rational humans. Indirect rights: rights given to you through something else, whether or not you are a rights holder. Astrid: her cat, dartboard, morally different to throw darts at the cat vs. dartboard. Old person has problems, not sane, loss of memory. Some people say don"t let me get to this point. Some people who would reject rights for senile elderly. I preserve rights for the non-senile to preserve rights for the future.
