Health Sciences 2610F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Sex Doll, Fetus, Mary Wollstonecraft
19 Apr 2019
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Uncontroversial: don"t challenge personhood, normal adult human being (capable, autonomous) More controversial: fetuses, infants, children, animals, mentally disabled, severely physically disabled, alzhiemer"s patients, robots, artificial intelligence, computers. Trolley effect- trying to expose inner bias: ex. If a train is going to kill one person by going right vs. 100 people by going left. Roxxy: sex doll created, something so human would it ever get to a point where they are. Humanity- biological category from which personhood is derived: ex. Personhood: legal status, not biological, a person is not a thing, a person has rights and responsibilities, endowed with dignity, deserving respect, a sub category, a person is a different category of creature. In the u. s. , the supreme court in scott v. sanford (1857) decreed that freed black slaves weren"t legally people, thus recognizing their human form (biological) but still denying them their rights as people.
