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| - | ====== PBA310Y: The Good Samaritan Argument ====== | + | ====== PBA310Y: The Good Samaritan Argument |
| Prerequisite: | Prerequisite: | ||
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| + | FIXME clip from movie Up for Killing Versus Letting Die | ||
| + | FIXME story of gas station, kid getting into wrong car and guy driving away, for Guarding argument thing | ||
| ===== Judith Jarvis Thompson ===== | ===== Judith Jarvis Thompson ===== | ||
| + | * Cool animation presenting the analogy: https:// | ||
| * [[http:// | * [[http:// | ||
| * [[wp>A Defense of Abortion]] | * [[wp>A Defense of Abortion]] | ||
| - | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch? | + | * http://www.str.org/articles/ |
| * "In chapter 7 of Francis Beckwith’s book, Politically Correct Death: Answering Arguments for Abortion Rights (1993), it extensively covers arguments such as this when refuting an analogy similar to the professor’s. The points Beckwith makes are in response to an analogy proposed by abortion advocate Judith Jarvis Thomson, known as " | * "In chapter 7 of Francis Beckwith’s book, Politically Correct Death: Answering Arguments for Abortion Rights (1993), it extensively covers arguments such as this when refuting an analogy similar to the professor’s. The points Beckwith makes are in response to an analogy proposed by abortion advocate Judith Jarvis Thomson, known as " | ||
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| ==== Analysis ==== | ==== Analysis ==== | ||
| === Themes === | === Themes === | ||
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| * Indeed, in what pregnancy could it be supposed that the mother has given the unborn person such a right? It is not as if there are unborn persons drifting about the world, to whom a woman who wants a child says I invite you in." | * Indeed, in what pregnancy could it be supposed that the mother has given the unborn person such a right? It is not as if there are unborn persons drifting about the world, to whom a woman who wants a child says I invite you in." | ||
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| * "a burglar" | * "a burglar" | ||
| * "If a set of parents do not try to prevent pregnancy, do not obtain an abortion, but rather take it home with them, then they have assumed responsibility for it, they have given it rights, and they cannot now withdraw support from it at the cost of its life because they now find it difficult to go on providing for it." | * "If a set of parents do not try to prevent pregnancy, do not obtain an abortion, but rather take it home with them, then they have assumed responsibility for it, they have given it rights, and they cannot now withdraw support from it at the cost of its life because they now find it difficult to go on providing for it." | ||
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| Based on this scenario (//this// scenario? | Based on this scenario (//this// scenario? | ||
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| + | FIXME Boonin vs. Trent Horn debate -- watch later https:// | ||
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| ===== Objections on the Way in Which the Relationship Ends ==== | ===== Objections on the Way in Which the Relationship Ends ==== | ||
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| * Boonin sets up two rescue track scenarios to paint the distinction in a favourable light. "You can fail to save one innocent person in order to save five others, they will say, but you cannot kill one innocent person in order to save five others." | * Boonin sets up two rescue track scenarios to paint the distinction in a favourable light. "You can fail to save one innocent person in order to save five others, they will say, but you cannot kill one innocent person in order to save five others." | ||
| - | * __Hysterotomy// | + | * __Hysterotomy/ |
| * Blaise: Yes, but the point of the distinction is whether or not your actions //or omissions// are what //causes// the death directly and intentionally -- not whether you kill someone by your direct action or by your direct omission. The cause of death is a medically unnecessary hysterotomy, | * Blaise: Yes, but the point of the distinction is whether or not your actions //or omissions// are what //causes// the death directly and intentionally -- not whether you kill someone by your direct action or by your direct omission. The cause of death is a medically unnecessary hysterotomy, | ||
| * Boonin tries to respond to the claim that a hysterotomy is initiating a fatal sequence of events whereas unplugging yourself from the violinist is merely allowing a fatal sequences of events to proceed by saying... "we should similarly say that removing the fetus allows to continue a fatal sequence of events that began when the fetus was conceived with the genetic disposition to have insufficient lung development for independent survive at an early stage in its development. Granted, this is a agenetic disposition that all human beings have..." | * Boonin tries to respond to the claim that a hysterotomy is initiating a fatal sequence of events whereas unplugging yourself from the violinist is merely allowing a fatal sequences of events to proceed by saying... "we should similarly say that removing the fetus allows to continue a fatal sequence of events that began when the fetus was conceived with the genetic disposition to have insufficient lung development for independent survive at an early stage in its development. Granted, this is a agenetic disposition that all human beings have..." | ||
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| * Blaise: Plus, that would be grounds for the morally permissibility of letting an infant die because a fatal sequence of events has already initiated at conception whereby the infant is not sufficiently developed to feed herself... | * Blaise: Plus, that would be grounds for the morally permissibility of letting an infant die because a fatal sequence of events has already initiated at conception whereby the infant is not sufficiently developed to feed herself... | ||
| ==== The Intending Versus Foreseeing Objection ==== | ==== The Intending Versus Foreseeing Objection ==== | ||
| + | FIXME rest of the chapter | ||
| + | ==== De Facto Guardian ==== | ||
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| + | Paper from Justice for all that dives extensively into the De Facto Guardian argument (includes the " | ||
| + | *http:// | ||