[PHIL 100] - Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (43 pages long!)
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Savulescu has a pretty good conception about what a "good life" looks like. People were given three options: (1) save as many lives/years of life as possible (2) serve those who will be most helpful in an epidemic first. (3) attempt to be fair: lottery- first-come, first-served. If we were all the same, the lottery would suffice. If all these would average out to the same results, the lottery may have a shot. The decision to have a lottery already constitutes making a decision anyway. The only reasonable restrictions on negative liberty is in so far as it harms others. Why we have it: negative vs. positive rights. What the harm principle is and how it works. Levels of harm and the threshold: non-disease characteristics. Is sex selection a way to prevent harm. Robertson and dahl: procreative liberty is a negative right. -> could entail the location in which you reproduce [hospital, home ].
