I thought this is what we just resolved! The fetus only has that desire if he or she grows to be an adult!
Let’s postulate a child in world A. World A never existed, because in world B, the real world, I destroyed the spermatozoon that fertilized that child. Another spermatozoon takes its place, and a different child was born. Did I commit murder? I hardly think so, even though there is a potential child that was never born, that had it been born it would have wished me preserve the conditions that allowed its birth.
If I did commit murder, then I must also have caused a death in World A, by preventing (through inaction) the birth of the child that could only have existed in World B.
The hypothetical entities that do not yet exist do not get to clamor for their own existence!
I thought this is what we just resolved! The fetus only has that desire if he or she grows to be an adult!
Let’s postulate a child in world A. World A never existed, because in world B, the real world, I destroyed the spermatozoon that fertilized that child. Another spermatozoon takes its place, and a different child was born. Did I commit murder? I hardly think so, even though there is a potential child that was never born, that had it been born it would have wished me preserve the conditions that allowed its birth.
If I did commit murder, then I must also have caused a death in World A, by preventing (through inaction) the birth of the child that could only have existed in World B.
The hypothetical entities that do not yet exist do not get to clamor for their own existence!