Monday, August 08, 2005

Make your "Pro Choice" friends' heads explode

I don't know (yet) who Robert P. George is, but he has stated my position well and even better than I by daring to apply those dear commodities, logic and reason.
There are three positions that can be defended without quickly falling into logical inconsistency. The first is that human beings are in no morally relevant way different from other creatures and therefore have no special dignity. The second is that human beings have an inherent and equal dignity; each and every human being possesses it simply by virtue of his or her humanity. The third is that some, but not all, human beings have dignity; those who have it possess it by virtue of some quality or set of qualities that they happen to possess that other human beings do not possess (or do not yet possess, or no longer possess).
Something I love about his posting is that the three logical positions can now have names: Granny Killers, Pro-Life, and Singerites.

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