Archive for January 11th, 2009
Don Marquis on Abortion
His “Why Abortion Is Immoral” is an absolutely brilliant article, with the arguments sound and tight as a virgin’s pussy (or is it the other way around?). He first asks, Why is it wrong to kill, period? And answers: Because this prevents the victim from having a valuable human future, a future “like ours.” That [...]
Posted: January 11th, 2009 under Ethics, Philosophy.
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Hard on Animals Entails Hard on Humans?
An argument against cruelty to animals can proceed as follows: those who gratuitously hurt animals will become cold and heartless and brutalized and will tend to gratuitously hurt humans, as well. But, it may be objected, cannot people make distinctions between irrational animals and humans? Why must being hard on the former translate into being [...]
Posted: January 11th, 2009 under Ethics, Philosophy.
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