PHIL 150 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Speciesism, Happy Human
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Unhealthy child: you are trying to conceive a child. All is good, but you are on a medication that will most likely interfere with the child"s development. If you switch medications, you can have a normal child if you wait a month. Instead, the mother goes home and conceives the baby instead of waiting one month to conceive. The baby is born with the abnormalities and dies before the age 40. Most people believe this is morally wrong because it harms her child. But, conceiving now rather than waiting is morally correct because a month later, there would have been a different sperm and egg. The child would not have been better off because he would not have existed a month later. 40 good years of life seems to be better than no life at all. Therefore, it seems like the child was benefited with life. Breeding sighted hens instead because henrietta is harmed.
