You make a good point, and I’m not advocating for restricted abortion access in any way.
I was more trying to take the POV of those protestors; under their model of the world, each abortion is a murder(potentially with great suffering associated). I wanted to find out whether abortion would be an important issue to work on given that starting assumption that gave no weight to the future of the parents or children.
What I found was that, even when using the strongest case of abortion(albeit, that didn’t incorporate the potential value of a future human life), it still paled in comparison to other issues such as animal welfare.
Thank you for your constructive criticism! I recognize that this is a contentious issue, and I’ll try to soften the language a bit and clarify my very overly-simplifying assumptions.
I don’t think this is the strongest case for abortion, taking the world view of the protesters as a given. If you presented this BOTEC to them, I think it’s very likely that they would tell you that they care much more about humans than chickens.
That is what I understood Russell to be saying? See:
I realized that if you were even arguing about abortion, then you must value human fetuses(which look a lot like chicken fetuses) 8,650 times more than tortured, murdered chickens.
You make a good point, and I’m not advocating for restricted abortion access in any way.
I was more trying to take the POV of those protestors; under their model of the world, each abortion is a murder(potentially with great suffering associated). I wanted to find out whether abortion would be an important issue to work on given that starting assumption that gave no weight to the future of the parents or children.
What I found was that, even when using the strongest case of abortion(albeit, that didn’t incorporate the potential value of a future human life), it still paled in comparison to other issues such as animal welfare.
Thank you for your constructive criticism! I recognize that this is a contentious issue, and I’ll try to soften the language a bit and clarify my very overly-simplifying assumptions.
I don’t think this is the strongest case for abortion, taking the world view of the protesters as a given. If you presented this BOTEC to them, I think it’s very likely that they would tell you that they care much more about humans than chickens.
That is what I understood Russell to be saying? See: