PHIL 102 Lecture Notes - Justin Bieber, Thought Experiment, Fetus
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The more you build your opponent"s argument, the bigger impact you"ll have when you show that it still doesn"t work. If you wake up attached to justin beiber, who needs to stay attached to your kidneys for 9 months to survive. do you unplug yourself? if yes, then you should be in favour of abortion. We"ll have to gure out what these are Eg. that the pop star and fetus are different. The chocolate box and right to live are different? they don"t have a right" to the chocolate: the right to life a) bare minimum needed for life b) right not to be killed unjustly, responsibility. Eg. justin beiber needs to use your kidneys, which he isn"t entitled to. It"s not suf cient to argue that abortion shouldn"t be performed; you have to show that abortion is unjust killing.
