RE: Abortion is morally wrong
August 11, 2014 at 1:17 pm
(This post was last modified: August 11, 2014 at 1:21 pm by bennyboy.)
(August 11, 2014 at 6:09 am)Esquilax Wrote:I don't think so. You can think of DNA as a property of a body holding a mind, or of the mind as a property of DNA. You see the mind as the identity. But Christians (and perhaps non-Christian anti-abortionists) see mind as the conscious expression of the genetic (or spiritual) identity that already exists. You can argue whether that matters or even whether it's true-- but I don't think it's special pleading or logical absurdity to view things in that way.(August 11, 2014 at 5:42 am)bennyboy Wrote: No, you just need to define "identity" in a way that doesn't begin with the emergence of the mind.
And any way you attempted to do that- even leaving aside the complete absurdity of premising the argument on defining "identity" as "not identity"- would contain some logical absurdity or another to render the argument ineffective, or reliant on special pleading.
Quote:Meta-morality. I like it.Quote:Maybe, but adopting a moral system based on any of those is still an arbitrary choice.
It's evolved; those whose morals don't prize life over death and pleasure over pain generally aren't around to take part in the process. Besides, what else would one base morality on, in place of the well being of the things that can create moral frameworks?
