21:46 7 4G الله Discussion Details Back Samuel Kelso Group 2 Questions For This Discussion Forum: • What does it mean to say that the special value of human lives is reflected in how they are ‘not disposable'? Does this reflect a special value? • Are human lives intrinsically valuable? If so, in virtue of what? (Is it our uniqueness, perhaps, or our autonomy, or something else?) • If human life is intrinsically valuable, then does that mean that one can never morally kill a human being? If not, why not? • Do we have a right to life? If so, then what implications might this have? • Does the special value of human life relate to how we are persons (i.e., with the capacity to live genuinely autonomous lives, to have hopes and dreams, and so on)? • How might accounts of the special value of human beings relate to the value of animals? For example, if personhood is what's important, then doesn't that mean that animals lack a special value (and doesn't this justify, for example, our using them for food)? • What does it mean to say that animals are i 1 Dashboard Calendar To Do Notifications Inbox 21:46 1 4G الله Back Discussion Details Samuel Kelso Group 2 What does it mean to say that animals are replaceablein a way that human beings are not? Is it true? • What is euthanasia? How might thinking of personhood as determining the special value of human beings legitimize euthanasia in certain situations? • What is abortion? How might thinking of personhood as determining the special value of human beings legitimize abortion? Is the potentiality of the foetus for personhood relevant here? • What does it mean to say that human life is sacred, and how is this a stronger claim than the thesis that human life has special value? • What is deontologism, and how is it different from consequentialism? • Why would a deontological approach to the wrongness of killing entail that it would be better to not kill someone even if killing them would save twenty other lives? What would the consequentialist say about such a case? • Is my moral obligation to others the same regardless of their geographical distance from me? If so, then doesn't that mean that I have overwhelming moral obligations (to potentially millions of 1 Dashboard Calendar To Do Notifications Inbox 21:47 1 4G الله Back Discussion Details Samuel Kelso Group 2 whether the foetus is a person doesn't determine whether abortion is morally permissible? • What implications might the violinist case have for our moral obligations to others more generally? • In what way are most pregnancies disanalogous to the violinist case? How might this disanalogy weaken Thomson's argument? • Are there also disanalogies between the violinist case and our relationship to the global poor? For example, are we responsible for there being global poverty in a way that the protagonist in the violinist case is not responsible for being hooked-up to a violinist? • Consider the proposal that we are morally obligated to help everyone in need only so long as we can do so in a way that isn't onerous. Is this proposal defensible? If not, why not? • What is utilitarianism? Why might the utilitarian hold that we are always morally obligated to help others in need so long as the cost to us in doing so is not greater than the good we thereby bring about? What problems might such a proposal face? = 1 Dashboard Calendar To Do Notifications Inbox 21:47 1 4G الله Back Discussion Details Samuel Kelso Group 2 • What is self-determination? Do we have a right to self-determination? How might the idea that self-determination has a special value enable us to limit, in a principled way, the demands made upon us by morality? Is this limitation principled? • What is the distinction between positive and negative responsibility? How can we recast the debate about the demandingness of morality in terms of the limits of negative responsibility? Reply Replies AR Anayissa Rebollo Jul 4 at 2:04 AM Are human lives intrinsically valuable? If so, in virtue of what? (Is it our uniqueness, perhaps, or our autonomy, or something else?) Humans are in fact intrinsically valuable and in short, this can be simplified from the saying there is only one version of you. This comes from just being humans and = 1 Dashboard Calendar To Do Notifications Inbox 21:484 4G الله Back Discussion Details Samuel Kelso Group 2 Replies AR Anayissa Rebollo Jul 4 at 2:04 AM Are human lives intrinsically valuable? If so, in virtue of what? (Is it our uniqueness, perhaps, or our autonomy, or something else?) Humans are in fact intrinsically valuable and in short, this can be simplified from the saying there is only one version of you. This comes from just being humans and having that special value of being valuable themselves. No matter how many times one compares themselves to others around them and thinks they're just like everybody else, they are in fact not like everybody else. Yes, you may share similarities as the person next to you, look the same to somebody else, and or maybe even feel as though your life is a complete parallel, but you are valuable within yourself. You are not like a pizza that can be thrown away and be made again because it doesn't taste good, that's something that's disposable, but as a human nobody is disposable. That's what makes humans lives intrinsically valuable 1 = Dashboard Calendar To Do Notifications Inbox
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