PHIL 27 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Family Resemblance, Counterargument
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Argument: should adopt even though we have biological desires to have children related to us (1) More moral to adopt a child who would otherwise face a life of uncertainty, than to bring a new child into the world (2) Counterargument: adopions take ime and cost money, and people prefer not to adopt because want geneically-related child (3) Pro tanto duty to adopt: genuine duty, but one that can be defeated by other consideraions: many people believe the deeply held preference for geneic children could defeat the duty to adopt. Counterargument: sacriicing a preference for geneic children is too costly to adopt: reasons to prefer a geneic child (11) Physical resemblance; response: too trivial of a reason (12) Family resemblance, like characterisics, traits etc. (13) Response: how much we value family resemblance is culturally coningent; what counts as family resemblance is culturally speciied (14) Could have a stronger bond with adopted child.
