How To Be An Existentialist

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@Chuz_Life @Docstockk Of course it's of value to them but that does not necessarily make it of moral value in itself? I agree a human zygote is a human being but is it yet in any way a person, a being with morally relevant characteristics? It's a potential person, therefore not yet an actual person.

@garycox01 @Docstockk To You or to an idiot, maybe. If a couple spends $50K just TRYING to conceive a child and they finally conceive. . . Let me know when you can convince them that their newly conceived child is morally worth-LESS because it has yet to live long enough and develop past your denials

The #ethics of #abortion explored in my book #HowToBeGood. A human #foetus is not morally relevant by virtue of being HUMAN (that's speciesism), but becomes morally relevant around 24 weeks by virtue of becoming a PERSON. @Docstockk bloomsbury.com/uk/how-to-be-g…

@Chuz_Life @Docstockk Characteristics that give x moral value. The more it has the more it is worthy of moral consideration. List here from #HowToBeGood p 146.

@garycox01 @Docstockk Define "Morally Relevant."

@NathanNobis @Docstockk I'll take a look at that. A while since I wrote about these issues. I chose abortion & animal rights as topics for the applied ethics chapter of #HowToBeGood, an intro to ethics and being ethical. Along with euthanasia they are often taught together as rights to life and death.

@garycox01 @Docstockk Ah, ok. Here's something on that, from long ago: Abortion and Animal Rights: Does Either Topic Lead to the Other? abortionarguments.com/2020/08/aborti…

@NathanNobis @Docstockk I take back the word 'complex'. I think I just had in mind the 'tricky' position people are placed in when the idea of non human persons exposes their moral inconsistencies. Singer mentions pro-lifers who happily eat steak for example.

@garycox01 @Docstockk How does that make animal issues more complex?

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@NathanNobis @Docstockk Singer's human/person distinction simplifies the abortion issue. It shortcuts pro life and pro choice, making it all about the personhood moral relevance of the fetus at x age as compared with that of the mother. Factoring personhood kind of makes animal rights more complex.

@garycox01 @Docstockk Sounds similar to what's here: AbortionArguments.com

@BioethicsUK @Docstockk Limited of course, far less of a person than a pig, but some capacity to feel and suffer, which is why 24 weeks is often the line. I was influenced by Singer's distinction between human and person, moral relevance pertaining to personhood not species membership.

@garycox01 @Docstockk What is the criterion of personhood that obtains circa 24-weeks?

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