PHLB09H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Distributive Justice, Canter And Gallop, Special Rights
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Week 10 lecture #16: thursday, november 05, 2015. Opponents of pre-natal disability screening (pds): aims to eliminate group, reinforces discrimination, reduces human diversity, implies disabled oughtn"t exist. Causation of a disability and therefore wrong. Makes it permissible to avoid having disabled child. Must think it"s permissible to avoid having disabled child. Inconsistent to condemn avoiding disability and not avoiding disability. Permissible to deprive means of preventing x. Permissible to cause x by other means. Maybe it is impermissible, but the opposition doesn"t prove it. Genetic dilemmas and the child"s right to an open future , davis. Genetic counsellor would be involve, risk and benefit for child. Rather, conflict b/w parental a and child"s future a. Parent a= desire to have a child w/ disability. Social causes are the major causes of happiness. Feinberg divides children"s rights: shared with adults. Right not to be murdered: unique to child. Right to shelter and food: exercisable only by adults.
