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I think you are looking at this from the wrong point of view. In your example the robber is the woman and the fetus is innocent walking down the stree...
January 29, 2019 at 19:35
- understand - however if there are predictable consensuses of the action we tend to hold people responsible for them. In the case of the robbery, the...
January 29, 2019 at 18:14
always kind of thought if the world is finite, it lent some weight to the concept of an un-created - creator, or a non-contingent being. What am I mis...
January 29, 2019 at 17:42
yea understand - it really only makes sense if you could assume for the sake of argument the fetus is a moral actor. Didn't say that - because thought...
January 29, 2019 at 17:39
My response would be that the robbery is the action of another. You can't implicitly consent to someone else's action. Not sure I understand the diffe...
January 29, 2019 at 17:24
Interested your guys view on the concept of Implied consent on the right of the fetus to the use of the woman's body. the logic goes something like th...
January 29, 2019 at 16:53
it is not good philosophy because it makes absolutely no attempt to be good philosophy. Quite the contrary, Judge Blackmun states - "We need not resol...
January 28, 2019 at 18:58
quite a few times. There is dispute on how good or bad a legal decision it was. But there is really no dispute it is bad philosophy. excerpts from the...
January 28, 2019 at 17:21
Who gets to speak for the fetus in that case? And that was the point I am making, are you 100% sure it deserves no moral standing in the discussion?
January 27, 2019 at 19:49
Not specific to you, just a side rant. But at is core the issue of personhood is a denial of biology in favor of “something else. Just find it ironic
January 27, 2019 at 19:44
one other point, forgive me the laziness of not finding it, but I think you made a point to S that morality wasn’t black and white, it was on some typ...
January 27, 2019 at 19:36
I make no capacity argument for the fetus at all its claim to future, just like ours is pure biology. The life Tim wood is living right now was at one...
January 27, 2019 at 19:30
Agree, and in the actual argument marquis address it. But the argument is not about any future, it is about a future, like ours. I have addressed this...
January 27, 2019 at 19:21
Because, you go on Because, you go on . It has a future. Well does it? It has a possible future, and that future is problematic; viz, there's a possib...
January 27, 2019 at 12:18
not the point of the argument. As with Tim, I am not in any delusion that I would change your mind, just think it is always useful to hear the counter...
January 27, 2019 at 04:15
your right, you win the argument is awful and is completely destroyed by your awesome summation. I never for a second believed it would change anyone’...
January 27, 2019 at 04:05
it makes absolutely no attempt to do so, nor is personhood of the fetus a requirement of the argument.
January 27, 2019 at 03:51
That's what the no problem was for
January 27, 2019 at 03:46
no problem
January 27, 2019 at 03:44
you are trying very hard to add the concept of personhood into the argument, and I have made no claim at all the fetus is a person. The argument does ...
January 27, 2019 at 03:44
p1 is about people like you and I , there is no mention the fetus in it This point does nothing to the logic of the argument
January 27, 2019 at 03:41
It is an organism, and at the appropriate time in its life cycle it can reproduce. Does wrong = immoral? Why sometimes a future, when do they not have...
January 27, 2019 at 03:38
no, take a stab at where you think we are, sometimes it is best to hear back where we think we are. I have done a lot of heavy lifting here. Tell me i...
January 27, 2019 at 03:04
and the last part last caveat - this argument makes no attempt at the next level argument that even if the fetus has a right not to be killed because ...
January 27, 2019 at 02:52
Conclusion and exceptions Conclusion If P1 and one definition of murder is the loss of ones future of value and if P6 Shortly after the process of con...
January 27, 2019 at 02:47
in light of use of mother's body? That is a separate argument than FLO we are having. It is perfectly possible that even if we agree the FLO argument ...
January 27, 2019 at 02:33
Thought I just addressed that here,
January 27, 2019 at 02:27
explain please. Complete thoughts make this go faster
January 27, 2019 at 02:24
neither the argument or I am making any claim of personhood for the organism. The only claim is, if left alone it has a unique future.
January 27, 2019 at 02:20
It could be anything, long short but if left alone it would have its unique future.
January 27, 2019 at 02:17
ok, give me another word, for the concept then, that if left alone it would experience a future. Just as when you and I were left alone we experienced...
January 27, 2019 at 02:16
one argument at a time please, other wise we just go round and round. We can discuss the right of the organism to the use of the mother's body, but fi...
January 27, 2019 at 02:12
The concept of ideal desire goes, as in the premise, You banno, are in an accident, you are completely unconscious, and are in need of life support. I...
January 27, 2019 at 02:09
not sure what the difference is. The point is, left alone, it would have a unique future that it would experience. I am not hung on word possess more ...
January 27, 2019 at 02:03
think that works
January 27, 2019 at 01:52
I never gave, nor am required to give awareness or desire to the organism. The argument goes, the lack of awareness and/or desire due to the stage of ...
January 27, 2019 at 01:51
I was being, no pun intended, purposely precise, using organism. Avoids all the "what is a human being, and what is not a human being" stuff.
January 27, 2019 at 01:19
it was just for the embodied mind. On your other point, you are just taking a characteristic, and modifying it so it it can't apply where you don't wa...
January 27, 2019 at 00:44
never used the term human beings P7 One’s awareness or desire for one’s future of value does not impact the moral permissiveness of taking it as in P1...
January 27, 2019 at 00:40
the thought experiment that goes with it, is I get in car accident and my body is a mess, but my brain is fine, at the same time, do to some illness a...
January 27, 2019 at 00:14
January 27, 2019 at 00:02
just making the point that past and future are part of the same time line. Last Friday is your past today, it was your future on Thursday
January 26, 2019 at 23:49
Technically, in the argument a about 2 weeks after the process of conception, after twinning is no longer possible, but close enough
January 26, 2019 at 23:46
ha
January 26, 2019 at 23:42
We ok with this
January 26, 2019 at 23:07
agree why I established the point after twinning
January 26, 2019 at 23:06
Sounds like we are kind of ok on P2 - on to P3 P3. All adult humans undergo the same process of development Currently, there is no other way to become...
January 26, 2019 at 22:32
I agree. The only claim in the FVOL argument about the fetus is it is a unique human organism. The overt purpose of the argument is to avoid the moras...
January 26, 2019 at 22:27
could I have that parse in context?
January 26, 2019 at 22:15
agree on the human part. On unique meaning it can only make 1 specific and unique individual human. It can't make Tim wood and rank and s. It can only...
January 26, 2019 at 22:14