----- Original Message ----- From: "Justin Schwartz" <jkschw at hotmail.com> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2002 1:31 PM Subject: Re: Singer's views
> Yes, that's part of why the abortion issue is so hard, philosophically.
But
> Marta's is a slippery slope argument. First they came for the newborns,
and
> I didn't speak up . . . . That doesn't depend on denying that newborns
> aren't persons because they lack a conception of--the future, isn't it, in
> Singer?
You can make the distinction between perceiving oneself as an individual persisting over time and a conception of self if you wish, but I don't think it's germane. A conception of time and a conception of self seem to be inexorably interdependent.
-- Luke
> not the self. Personally I don't think they are coming for the
> newborns, so it's mere philosophy to say that they would be morally on
solid
> ground if they were to do so. jks
>