PHIL 1550 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Virtue Ethics, Laboratory Rat, Hysterectomy
12 Jun 2020
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What if it was for the rest of your life? as having a child is something that affects someone"s entire life, not just the nine months of pregnancy. Thomson argues that this is outrageous, though, which displays that in some situations, a person"s right to life is not stronger than another person"s right to make decisions about what happened with her body. This thought experiment also displays how much is asked of a women when abortion is made illegal. She alters the thought experiment in which the violinist only needs your body for an hour. He uses the example of an assailant randomly attacking you and you kill him in order to save your own life. He argues that the first duty is much stronger than the second: in the thought experiment of the lifeboat two individuals (x and y) are adrift in a lifeboat and.
