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.
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.