Actually I don’t think infanticide is as universally evil as its cracked up to be.
Don’t get me wrong judging by my personal ethics infaticide is wrong and once we will have artificial uterus’s and genetic therapy abortion will also be wrong on about the same order of magnitude.
But going by general human behavior rather than specific ethical systems both infanticide and abortion where generally accepted far more than today. Not only that the specific notion that something magical happens when a organism passes through the birth canal making it worthy of moral consideration seems to be a very modern and Eurocentric thing.
Two points.
1:
Why is this any less arbitrary?
2:
So if I handed you a baby and offered you $10 to kill it, assuming no one else would ever find out, would you do it?
If the answer is some variation on “no, because I would feel bad about it”, I can throw in a pill that keeps you from feeling bad about it.
The scenario in 2 is too implausable to be useful, in my opinion.
w! Definitely a w.
I don’t understand the reference to w. What does that letter have to do with the context?
The homophone is broken.
Oh! Throw in a pill, not through in. I got it.
Thanks, Fixed.
You are not making points. You are issuing challenges.
I’m not sure I understand the question. You are not asking why I would value my own interests, are you?
I respectfully decline the challenge.
Actually I don’t think infanticide is as universally evil as its cracked up to be.
Don’t get me wrong judging by my personal ethics infaticide is wrong and once we will have artificial uterus’s and genetic therapy abortion will also be wrong on about the same order of magnitude.
But going by general human behavior rather than specific ethical systems both infanticide and abortion where generally accepted far more than today. Not only that the specific notion that something magical happens when a organism passes through the birth canal making it worthy of moral consideration seems to be a very modern and Eurocentric thing.