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All the ideas for 'Truth (frags)', 'A Defense of Abortion' and 'The Mozi'

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22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 1. Goodness / g. Consequentialism
Mohists desire wealth, population and social order as the best consequences [Mozi, by Norden]
23. Ethics / B. Contract Ethics / 2. Golden Rule
If people regarded other states as they did their own, they would never attack them [Mozi]
23. Ethics / D. Deontological Ethics / 3. Universalisability
Mozi condemns partiality, which is the cause of all the great harms in the world [Mozi]
Those who are against impartiality still prefer impartial protectors [Mozi]
25. Social Practice / F. Life Issues / 3. Abortion
The right to life does not bestow the right to use someone else's body to support that life [Thomson]
Maybe abortion can be justified despite the foetus having full human rights [Thomson, by Foot]
A newly fertilized ovum is no more a person than an acorn is an oak tree [Thomson]
Is someone's right to life diminished if they were conceived by a rape? [Thomson]
The foetus is safe in the womb, so abortion initiates its death, with the mother as the agent. [Foot on Thomson]
It can't be murder for a mother to perform an abortion on herself to save her own life [Thomson]
No one is morally required to make huge sacrifices to keep someone else alive for nine months [Thomson]
The right to life is not a right not to be killed, but not to be killed unjustly [Thomson]