Canada Proposes Life Sentences For Free Speech Crimes
For starters, morals are based upon one’s own beliefs and logical thought processes behind it. I am…
Still begging the question, all you did was rephrase it to make it look like you weren't. You still…
The man on his deathbed was previously capable of thought and feeling, and has gained rights because they were capable of sentience and consent in the first place. Losing that due to having a coma doesn’t change the fact that you normally can, same way as consenting to sex while under the influence is not considered consent. A fetus hasn’t ever had that capacity, nor even been close to developing it, therefore it’s wants and needs are of less moral value because it never once had that capacity, nor would they ever feel that no matter what medicinal circumstance they have.
Why should those who have lost their mental capacity, with no hopes of regaining it at the End of their lives, have more rights than those who will in a matter of weeks develop it, and thereon enjoy a life of potentially eighty years in extent, utilising to the benefit of society those abilities which the former party no longer possesses? It is an absurdity.
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Because they have been capable of feeling before, making it more than plausible to say that they have fulfilled the requirements to have implied rights to life due to being capable of consent at any point in their life. A fetus cannot have consent, and does not have the capacity to feel at all to begin with. Waiting for a bit will make them able to feel, yes, but that doesn’t necessarily mean it will happen, nor is future possibility applied to present possibility because that same logic could apply to sperm or earlier forms that are even further away from feeling, hence why I allow it… Read more
I'm sorry, did we logically establish that "Feeling" is what makes it wrong to murder people? I don't recall doing that... it seems to be one of the points in question...
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The capacity to feel pain, yes, it’s a factor, alongside being capable of thought, being fully born, and the necessity or wants of the parent.
