RE: Abortion and Global warming
May 26, 2014 at 3:29 pm
(This post was last modified: May 26, 2014 at 3:36 pm by Chas.)
(May 21, 2014 at 11:59 am)Heywood Wrote: This isn't a thread about the morality, necessity, or virtues of abortion. This is a thread about consistency. If future generations have a right to a clean and livable world then future generations have rights. This implies that future people have rights....including the right to exist. The right of a future person to exist contradicts a woman's right to an abortion.
You are conflating the concepts of possible with actual.
There are no actual future people. There is no way to predict what actual people will ever exist - just that there will be some people.
So there are no actual people to have a right to exist. What people do eventually exist may have rights, but future existence is not one of them.
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Science is not a subject, but a method.