I do not believe, but can understand / have respect for the argument that the fetus slowly transitions from 0 moral worth to full moral worth I will defend "no abortions on day 2" intellectually, but have no emotional angst at idea of RU-486 at that point
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It's a bad way to think about it, in that the death of an existing person is meaningful in a way the nonexistence of a hypothetical person is not. This should be obvious if you try to reverse the steps in Parfit's argument!
the way I read it, it has nothing to do with death and is all about possible people
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(apparently this distinction is hard though, else I wouldn’t hear “why doncha just kys” so much)
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