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m: fetus and right to life

-in some instances abortion is ok, usually wrong


-need justify


-depends on moral status of fetus

m: do they have right to life?

personhood isn't scientific q


-wont tell us if egg has mortal status

m: anti and pro

anti: all humans have RL


-human fetus is human, has RL




pro:


-only persons have RL


-fetus isn't a person so it doesn't have right to life



m: problem with killing

cause premature death


-deprived of a future


-deprived of a conscious life

m: if someone has a FLO

it is wrong to kill


-fetus have a FLO, killing is wrong

m: what makes killing wrong is FLO deprivation, why?

-matches our considered judgements about misfortune and premature death


-explains why killing is the worst crime


-peaceful non-human alien

m: objection on contraception

m

FLO,


-denying an egg/sperm

m: marquis response to contraception

no, no actual being is deprived of FLO

t: philisophical thoughts

limited offense of abortion


-says main premise of anti

t: with a baby....

mothers rights are also involved

t: main premise of anti

-let us grant that the fetus is a person at conception


-doesn't agree


-say it's true= no argument


-all persons have right to life


-so fetus has right to life (must accept)

t: people say abortion violates life, her response

no

t: violinist analogy

right to disconnect


-not doing anything don't have right to


-not violating


-describes rape



t: right not to be killed

right not to be killed unjustly

t: does abortion violate the fetus' right to life?

only if and when killed unjustly

t: when is something killed unjustly?

when its deprived of the use of is something it has right to

t: when does it have right to use woman body?

-when the woman has waved her right


-people get rights when given

t: circumstance of intercourse? give aright?

rape-no

wanting/intending to conceive-yes


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t: is knowing taking a risk enough, or being responsible?

-burglar analogy


-right has not been given, aborting doesn't violate

t: when do we violate fetus' right to life?

gave fetus right to use body



t: is abortion morally wrong?

yes if you give it the right


-no if don't

n: distributive (econ) justice

goods society has to offer

n: ex of distributive econ justice

-shelter


-healthcare


-community


-edu


-self-respect


-mobility


-meaingful work

n: wealth

inheritances, house, what you can own stocks and income

n: income

top % gets more pre-tax income than the bottom 40%

n: wages depend on how you live

-grant on merit


-how hard you work


-paid according to amount to social goods


-benefitting others


-hard to say how much we should pay others: depends on values, how hard work is

n: libretarian

a just wage is whatever you get the people to work force


-their choice


-option available


-free market


-all acting voluntary

n: LC issues with property

private, individuals and corps.

n: SS issues with property

public, state/gov't

n: WS issue with property

primarily private; some pub

n: LC production

private econ actors


-market

n: SS production

state decides, gov't

n: WS production

somemarket; some gov't involvement in distribution and regulation

n: LC allocation

market value of their goods and/or labor


-plus gifts


-charity distribution

n: SS allocation

what you neeed

n: WS allocation

-market value + gifts


-guaranteed publicly funded access to solve resources

n: whether there should be WS

major issue of econ justice

n: overall we all-being in capitalism

-produces highest level of well being


-getting needs met


-give people what they deserve


-respect peoples freedoms

n: why does cap seem like this?

-cap produces goods


-produces wealth


-different brans ex: deodorant

n: what issue does socialism call on cap?

-not equal


-great majority is held by a certain group, won't increase well-being


-more happiness if you redistribute


-declining marginal utility to people who have a lot



n: severe inequalities of capitalism

-labor market dynamics tend to concentrate wealth among a relative few


-gain and losses are quamlative

n: labor market: LC

cheaper the labor-- more profit


-produce as much as possible and pay them little


-more wealth for owner

n: result from labor market

a lot of wealth from productivity and also very unequal distribution


-cap system uses money to make more


-poor get more poor

n: what people deserve: LC

- get paid for what they do


-inginuity that helps society


-market value


-desrve; what i produce

n: crisitsm of LC

market value and social good can come apart


-just cuz you an produce doesn't mean you're helping society


-market valuue doe not equal social/personal value

n: cap rewards..

-bargaining and prop ownership


-critics say who work the hardest to not get rewarded

n: critics of cap

-yes productive but distribution is at top


-creates inequalities

n: marginalutility

wasting resources by giving it to people that already have it


-if you took that and distribute it to people who needs it, more happiness

n: cap response to marginal utility

-competition from earning wealth promotes high work ethic, max well-being


-the incentives in a cap system are what create both high productivity and inequality


-can't have productivity w/out unequal distribution


-works on self-interest

n: cap, the power of fear and desire=

self interest


-need a society for people to be motivated

n: socialist response to drawing

pic has assumptions, people/motivations

-assumption of nature of work


-people are overwhelming self-interested


-socialist like nah

n: in socialism...

work would be organized differently and everyone would have some option to do something with meaning

n: critics of socialism sat they'd work less

whats wrong with that they get am time


-happier are more productive

n: welfare state

mix of both


-market system but with taxation w/ some guarantee to resources

n: with welfare state....

can still work hard and make money but with tax


-no one will be poor, basic needs met

n: kinds of desert

institutional and moral

n: institutional

got what the institution says should get



n: moral

what people deserve or don't deserve


-personal and human

n: personal desert

varies from person to person- based on what you've done

n: human desert:

feature we all share, equally

n: does LC have personal and human desert?

p: kinda


h: no

n: does SS have personal and human?

p: no


h: yes

personal desert in LC:



-idea is a reliable connection between market value and desert


-determines labor: supply and demand

n: how inheritance incompatible

creates unequal opportunities


-undeerstood resources


-use stuff for gain


-provide undeserved competitive advantages, which then compound across generations

n: socialism

human needs don't usually vary


-roughly equal

n: why welfare state, best of both worlds

-provide personal: market still in affect


-room to do better or worse depending on effort or contribution


-is also provides safety net


-can tax but they aren't taking something you "deserve"/"keep"

n: LC: freedom based

-only thing that matters is freedom


-entitled to your own holdings


-no forced distribution


-free market


-distributive justice

n: LC whats legitimately holding property?

-aquired it or got it from someone else




n: LC where do private property rights come with the state of nature?

-mix labor and becomes mine


-certain restrictions

n: LC how to exchange property?

give it or offer


-voluntary, no one can deceive or take it


-no gov't; taxation=theft

n: negative freedom

ne freedom to go to a store and go to buy food cuz no one is stopping me


-im free to do X so long as no one is stopping me from x-ing


-im free not to do y so long as no one is forcing me to do y

n: importance of neg freedom

everyone agrees it's good

n: positive right

free to access


-ex: pub edu

n: why is neg freedom not enough?

-need ability to do stuff WITH resources

n: critism LC conception is

purely neg


-narros


-liberty can undermine liberty (the freer you are the less freer others are)


-other peoples liberties can be affected


-trade off

n: socialist responds to mergers

negative affects on others


-affect small business


-inhibits competition


-bigger corp is more powerful they have



n: what can happen if gov't limits merger?

-increase freedom

n: social security

force and redistribution


-shoud be able to contribute or not

n: how might someone argue SS?

allows old people to live independently


-enables people to be lazy


-set a safety net


-it's a net increase in freedom

movie: 1970s flat wages, why?

women entering workforce


-tech advances


-immigrants


-offshore production


-hella profit, not paying workers

movie: results for workers

-workers borrow


-work more

movie: reuslt for busieness

-lend $$ to workers


-mergers


-pay themselves


-put it in banks, then have a lot of $$

n: socialism: neg and positive freedom

doesn't mean we'll be more free

n: problem with cap

ineqaulity

n: problem with socialism

-gov't controls distribution and production


-powerful enough for tyranny


-depend on gov't

n: ex of pros with socialism

stalin

n: contributing factors to stalin

-gov't power control and distribution


-imperialism/cologialism


-resource extraction


-resistance----crackdown


-highly authoritarian, highly centralized



n: conclude from stalin

foolish to ignore BUT also important ways freedom isn't all in cap


n: CWS

state distributes resources/goods needed for a decent level of well being to everyone


-have necessities w/out extravagant


-edu, health care, food


n: CWS with this..

not an exact number but there IS a floor where people can't drop but not a cieling

n: what is a CWS

provide decent life for everyone


-what people need depends on society

n: how do we know CWS isn't socialism?

-no ceiling so there are inequalities


-you can have high wealth but everyone must have enough for a decent life


-provided that the wealthy can't monopolize

n: why does cws do well with freedom?

don't have people desperate enough to do awful jobs


-have freedom to say no


-they become freer with a safety net

n: CWS dependency a neg characteristic trait

-not always true


-wealthy are not self sufficient either


-inheritance


-stocks/bonds


-workers


-we are ALL dependent

n: even LC have dependency

police

n: guaranteed income would undermine peoples moviation, yay or nay?

-more motivation to work


-no ceiling---still plenty of incentive


-not forced


-but we don't really know

n: people who do not work do not deserve any resources, yay or nay?

-people who make objection but people are getting resources while working


-ex: inheritance