>>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? 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
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>No I don't think they are coming for ALL the newborns, just the
>disabled ones. So I would take the stand that Singer knows that they
>are not coming for the newborns and has found a way to
>philosophically/ethically allow parents of disabled babies to kill
>them. That's all.
>
>Marta
But the law isn't going to change, it'll still be murder to kill a disabled newborn, so it's a merely academic question.
jks
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