RE: Moral Obligations toward Possible Worlds
May 7, 2021 at 3:59 pm
(This post was last modified: May 7, 2021 at 4:14 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
If pro choice folks and forced birth folks actually had a moral disagreement over killing children, there would be no utility in forced birthers equivocating over the terms, and no utility in insisting that they've done so.
Convincing a pro choice person who disagrees with you that killing children is evil...that abortion is killing children, would be of no use. Forced birthers take for granted that there is moral agreement over the issue. They're well justified in doing so - even if the equivocation is slimy. That being said, a pro-choicer can believe that the forced birthers are getting something meaningfully right with the attempt. I can see it, and can understand that a rational process rather than pure intuition has been applied to reach the conclusion (and even the moral conclusion) - even if I think they get it wrong. At the bottom of it all, being pro-choice isn't actually equivalent to not having a moral disagreement with abortion in the first place. I have severe moral disagreements with abortion - and remain thoroughly pro-choice.
Convincing a pro choice person who disagrees with you that killing children is evil...that abortion is killing children, would be of no use. Forced birthers take for granted that there is moral agreement over the issue. They're well justified in doing so - even if the equivocation is slimy. That being said, a pro-choicer can believe that the forced birthers are getting something meaningfully right with the attempt. I can see it, and can understand that a rational process rather than pure intuition has been applied to reach the conclusion (and even the moral conclusion) - even if I think they get it wrong. At the bottom of it all, being pro-choice isn't actually equivalent to not having a moral disagreement with abortion in the first place. I have severe moral disagreements with abortion - and remain thoroughly pro-choice.
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