11 ideas
10242 | I apply structuralism to concrete and abstract objects indiscriminately [Quine] |
10243 | My ontology is quarks etc., classes of such things, classes of such classes etc. [Quine] |
21907 | We don't want another new set of categories; we want a variety of flexible categories [Deleuze, by May] |
4061 | The right to life is not a right not to be killed, but not to be killed unjustly [Thomson] |
4060 | The right to life does not bestow the right to use someone else's body to support that life [Thomson] |
4695 | Maybe abortion can be justified despite the foetus having full human rights [Thomson, by Foot] |
4057 | A newly fertilized ovum is no more a person than an acorn is an oak tree [Thomson] |
4058 | Is someone's right to life diminished if they were conceived by a rape? [Thomson] |
4696 | The foetus is safe in the womb, so abortion initiates its death, with the mother as the agent. [Foot on Thomson] |
4059 | It can't be murder for a mother to perform an abortion on herself to save her own life [Thomson] |
4062 | No one is morally required to make huge sacrifices to keep someone else alive for nine months [Thomson] |