PHIL 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Fetus, Fot
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Benefits of the future-like-ours (flo) : experiences, activities, projects (the goods of consciousness)- things i come to value even if i don"t value it now. Accounts of wrongness of killing that exclude the fetuses. Sa: we need to talk about rights to determine wrongness of killing. Things people think can distinguish persons from non-persons. Killing is not wrong because our family will miss us. Killing is not wrong because it brutalizes the killer, because that implies the nature of killing is already brutal. A deprivation is still a harm even if no one is around to experience that deprivation. Neutral loss: just a loss or depravation of something. On the other hand, it is necessary to prove that discontinuing a life we want to continue and a life that is required to fulfill other desires is a necessity for killing to be wrong.
