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Originally Posted by victorbravo  I'm in the middle of a class right now otherwise I'd love to jump in some more. But I think trying to analyze by analogizing to vaccines, Katrina, etc, is misplaced. Those fall into the category of either emergency or protection of life--same reason war can be justified. Not so for convenience. If you introduce emergency analysis into ethics as a general rule, it usually messes things up.
It boils down to convenience of the many trumps the life rights of the few--which is exactly the argument used by many in support of abortion. |
Yah - I think where the analogy breaks here is that the "convenience machine" as Tom has defined it has much more potential benefit factors than just "convenience". We all know that the convenience factor of abortion is
HIGH, while the benefit factor is
LOW, thus driving a moral decision that the risk is much greater than the reward.