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Full Idea
Maybe the right to life consists not in the right not to be killed, but in the right not to be killed unjustly.
Gist of Idea
The right to life is not a right not to be killed, but not to be killed unjustly
Source
Judith (Jarvis) Thomson (A Defense of Abortion [1971], p.131)
Book Ref
'Ethics for Modern Life', ed/tr. Abelson,R./Friquegnon,M [St Martin's 1987], p.131
A Reaction
Sounds tautological. There is no right to life, then, but just the requirement that people behave justly?