How did the second contemporary issue effect your principles? Are you better able to see areas where your principles need adjusting? What adjustments need to be made? Which philosopher's position was least consistent with your own principles and why?
My principles are deeply affected by the issue of abortion because my principles are molded by religion. Playing God will violate those principles because another human is determining whether or not another human should live or not. I understand that the most important aspect of living is pertaining to your own indvidual happiness and that the decision to keep or abort a child is a factor of how happy the parent will be with the decision. I believe that from the moment of conception that there is a human inside of the woman. The most primitive form of the human, and when aborting that human, that is murder by a doctors hands. I consider it surrogate euthanasia. I think that the mothers either believe that they are incapable of providing a decent life for a child or they just arent ready and that prompts them to opt for abortion, therefore, the child must die. This is immoral to me.
In that aspect my principles need adjusting. I need to understand that individual morals will be the best determining factor when it comes to making that kind of decisions, however, I still disagree. Also, I stated in another blog that libertarianism is the view that I deem to be acceptable when it comes to living life. However, I'm relying on religion, a third party, to base my stance on abortion off of.
The philosopher that conflicts the most with my views is Warren because although the right to our own bodies is a factor, I believe that God determines who lives and dies. I simply believe that the act of abortion is immoral.
This week I commented on http://becksbradley.blogspot.com and http://meffstonespeaksonabortion.blogspot.com/ .
I agree that playing God is wrong but if one should even argue from a moral point of view and not a religious one, the child has earned a NATURAL RIGHT to live and thus that cannot and should not be taken away
ReplyDeleteI'm an atheist as I'm sure a lot of people in the class know by now so I don't believe that killing a fetus would be playing God but I definately respect your view. It seems that this issue has both made us think about our own views that we talked about in earlier blogs. Do you think it's a bad thing to go against certain principles when it comes to standing up against abortion?
ReplyDeleteBecky, since to me the definition of a belief is a concept that shapes one's outlook on life and guides my actions, I think that it is bad to go against certain principles. My beliefs are what make me do the things that I do and make the decisions that I make, if I go against them for one dilemma what does that really say about the strength of my belief and my faith in it. At that point, it wouldnt be a belief anymore, but simply a plausible idea.
DeleteI perfectly can understand how you feel deciding whether a person should live is like playing God, but what can you do if a woman is pregnant and if the mother has the baby she dies, and if not, the baby has to die. My point is sometimes as humans we have to take on the role of God and decide what's best.
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