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#6 — Peter Singer | Utilitarianism and Animals

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The Contraceptive Requirement of Incest Doesn't Make a Difference

Jonathan Hite was trying to test responses to incest and these were not philosophers he wasn't trying to get into a philosophical discussion about those issues. The contraceptive requirement of this moral case make a difference are we suggesting that it would be a moral for people for incest to take place where there's the possibility of a child because that child would be born an abnormal child seems to imply the idea that it's wrong to have children who are abnormal I think Jonathan Hite put that into the example to avoid evoking that reason for for rejecting it.

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