(March 27, 2014 at 7:08 am)Pickup_shonuff Wrote:If I understand Heywood argument it's that a fetus, Like a person under Anaesthesia, hopefully WILL achieve full sentience, whereas a pig or a cow won't ever be more than a pig or a cow.(March 27, 2014 at 6:40 am)Heywood Wrote: Prolifers.....like non prolifers grant moral protection to future expectation of personhood. The difference is that prolifers recognize that a fetus has a future expectation of personhood because that is the consistent position.
Fine but that doesn't answer my question. There's nothing consistent as far as I can see in the position that "a future expectation of personhood" be regarded more sacred than the present sentience of a pig or a cow.
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Through power, I gain victory.
Through victory, my chains are broken."
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