Following on from Sentience Part 1, I will now address the conclusion of Bonnie Steinbock’s argument. Steinbock’s Conclusion Similar ambiguities affect Steinbock’s conclusion. Steinbock asserts that for killing an individual to be unlawful homicide, the individual must be sentient. However, this is ambiguous; as Don Marquis points out, this could mean that the individual will […]
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Sentience Part 2
November 2nd, 2008 2 Comments
Tags: Abortion · Bonnie Steinbock · Don Marquis · Feticide · Sentience
Sentience Part 1
November 1st, 2008 Comments Off on Sentience Part 1
Following on from my series on the illiberality of Abortion, discussion in the comments section turned to the issue of sentience. Commenters asked whether perhaps sentience is the property that a newborn possesses and a fetus does not that warrants such unequal application of the non-initiation of force principle by liberals. Is sentience the property […]
Tags: Abortion · Bonnie Steinbock · Feticide · Harry Gensler · Michael Tooley · Sentience