PHIL 1030 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Counterexample
8 Feb 2017
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Slippery slope 2 requires that most conspicuous or unlike any other is the most reasonable. Boonin"s claim is that a continuous rate of development between a and b is simply insufficient to transfer categorical moral properties from a to b and b to a. Assume that an oak tree has the right to life. The only way to get to conclusion that acorn has the right to life is to identify those features of the oak in venture of which the oak has right to life, then show that acorn has those features. According to boonin, they conflate existence value with integrity value. Existence value their existence makes the world a better place. Oak trees, no matter what their age is. Integrity value given that it exist it merits respectful treatment; existence of such things do not necessarily make the world a better place, but it would be morally wrong to kill.
