RE: J.J. Thompson's Violinist Thought Experiment Concerning Abortion
December 29, 2021 at 11:17 am
(This post was last modified: December 29, 2021 at 11:28 am by The Grand Nudger.)
That's the hook. People debate over the morality or practicality of someone else's choice...and let's stipulate (because it's easy to stipulate) that other people's choices can be good or bad - but other peoples choices aren't actually the item in question when it comes to the aims of these arguments. Neither is their sex. Regardless of whether someone else has made a good or bad choice to x, we..ourselves, are now considering a second question irrelevant to and unaffected by the moral or practical nature of the first.
What -we're- going to do, or willing to do....about it. It may not actually be the case that a person owning their body makes every decision about that body their choice (and it's just deliciously ironic that the presumed context of this discussion is babbies..who we don't think have -any- say in decisions about their body born, unborn, alive or dead.....)...but it certainly is the case that whatever we choose to do about it is owned uniquely by ourselves.
What -we're- going to do, or willing to do....about it. It may not actually be the case that a person owning their body makes every decision about that body their choice (and it's just deliciously ironic that the presumed context of this discussion is babbies..who we don't think have -any- say in decisions about their body born, unborn, alive or dead.....)...but it certainly is the case that whatever we choose to do about it is owned uniquely by ourselves.
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