By Derek Parfit
Tough, with a number of strong arguments, a few of our private ideals approximately rationality, morality, and private id, Parfit claims that we've got a fake view approximately our personal nature. it's always rational to behave opposed to our personal top pursuits, he argues, and so much people have ethical perspectives which are self-defeating. we frequently act wrongly, even though we all know there'll be nobody with critical grounds for criticism, and after we contemplate destiny generations it's very difficult to prevent conclusions that the majority folks will locate very nerve-racking.
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But it seems to me that to treat the matter in this way is to refuse to grant to the mother that very status of person which is so firmly insisted on for the fetus. For we cannot simply read off what a person may do from what a third party may do. Suppose you fmd yourself trapped in a tiny house with a growing child. I mean a very tiny house, and a rapidly growing child-you are already up against the wall of the house and in a few minutes you'll be crushed to death. The child on the other hand won't be crushed to death; if nothing is done to stop him from growing he'll be hurt, but in the end he'll simply burst open the house and walk out a free man.
But this is an issue that we will have to consider on another occasion. A DEFENSE OF ABORTION I JUDITH JARVIS THOMSON Most opposition to abortion relies on the premise that the fetus is a human being, a person, from the moment of conception. The premise is argued for, but, as I think, not well. Take, for example, the most common argument. We are asked to notice that the development of a human being from conception through birth into childhood is continuous; then it is said that to draw a line, to choose a point in this development and say "before this point the thing is not a person, after this point it is a person" is to make an arbitrary choice, a choice for which in the nature of things no good reason can be given.
Rosenfeld, The Second Genesis 138-139 (1969); Smith, Through a Test Tube Darkly: Artificial Insemination and the Law, 67 Mich. L. Rev. 127 (1968); Note, Artificial Insemination and the Law, 1968 U. m. L. F. 203. 12 w. Prosser, The Law of Torts 335-338 (4th ed. 1971); 2 F. Harper &. F. James, The Law of Torts 1028-1031 (1956); Note, 63 Harv. L. Rev. 173 (1949). 13 Louisell, Abortion, The Practice of Medicine and the Due Process of Law, 16 U. C. L. A. L. Rev. 233, 235-238 (1969); Note, 56 Iowa L.