The Philosophy of the Abortion Debate | Prof. Angela Knobel
The Thomistic Institute
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The Moral Value of Killing a Fish
The ideaas if we would take some point in this line, right? Om some stage in the development of an embryo, we an we compare what it can do. So not very wrong to kill a fish. Doesn't bother us a lot. And so on. This view, any any developing human being whose abilities are akin to those possessed by a fish has a similar moral value and the wrongness of killing it would be same e a dog,. Dogs a score considerably higher on these tests. Still, not super high, rightt, but higher. We feel, we feel worse about killing dogs than we feel about killing fish, right? Newborns are below dogs there? No
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