Mothers are flooded with hormones, the biological purpose of which is to make them value their babies. It’s obviously not the result of dispassionate philosophical assessment.
But you don’t have to think that there’s nothing wrong with killing non-persons. It could just be a lesser wrong.
Yet most mothers seem to value the lives of babies over their own lives.
Baby-killing seems to be a worse crime than killing an adult.
Even people who support abortion are horrified by infanticide.
If babies aren’t persons, is Peter Singer right in that its not wrong to kill a baby 30 days after birth—especially if it is disabled?
Mothers are flooded with hormones, the biological purpose of which is to make them value their babies. It’s obviously not the result of dispassionate philosophical assessment.
But you don’t have to think that there’s nothing wrong with killing non-persons. It could just be a lesser wrong.
In a hypothetical scenario then, you probably should save the adult’s life over the child’s, even if the adult protests for the sake of the child.