Objection

“The Survival Lottery” by John Harris was an article published in 1975. In the article he suggests an implementation of a mandatory donor lottery that places all people that are in good health and above a designated target age. He begins by explaining the criteria for the lottery scheme. In his ideal world for this to be able to work, doctors have perfected procedures for organ transplants. However, the medical field haven’t quite been able to grow organs from stem cells yet. Mr. Harris starts…

Marquis argues that killing a fetus deprives it of a valuable future/future like ours, and concludes by saying abortion is not morally permissible. I agree with Marquis’ argument that it is wrong to kill a fetus through abortion because I believe that they have a valuable future as all humans do. While I agree with Marquis that majority of deliberate abortions are seriously immoral, I do believe that in some cases it is permissible. For instance, choosing to have an abortion after being sexually…

it deprives us of the goods in life. To defend this Kagan relies on logic of it as well as solving the puzzles of existence while avoiding simpler objections to her Deprivation Account. The first objection is changing her account to state that, death is good for us because it deprives us of the bad things in life. What seems like a nonsense objection must be addressed because as depressing as it is to think about it does make some sense. Life is full of struggles and challenges and although most…

language in the bible provides compelling evidence for a libertarian view but also the reason why free will was given to humans in the first place. According to the bible, everyone’s actions will be examined during the second coming of Jesus. Another objection to my position could be if God is good and everything he creates is good, why is there evil in the world? If God is omniscient, omnipotent, and omnipresent, surely He would be able to create a world in which evil does not…

formed by Saint Anselm. Anselm believed that everyone has some idea of God in their minds, so he exists. Some objections to this argument are that an idea and reality are not the same thing and that Anselm’s logic is flawed and saying that something is the thing that nothing better could be thought of does not make it a true statement for all things. The argument might respond to these objections by first saying that to say that something is the thing that nothing better could be thought of only…

Looking into Pascal’s Wager is quite informative and interesting. Pascal’s Wager is typically known in the Theist culture as a wager for god. Pascal’s Wager states, “Believing in God is the better choice.” The arguments of Pascal are proven faulty in a number of ways. Pascal’s book has still become a major Theist book. Pascal’s wager is, in the Theist 1 culture, a wager for God. Instead, this wager has been used as the opposite. The wager is actually one of three from a French man named Pascal,…

presupposes identity is a circular one, and therefore makes this question important. To study this, I looked at Parfits theory of Psychological continuity, and how it was seen as problematic due to its circularity. Parfits solution to the circular objection was quasi-memory, however Schechtman holds criticism against quasi-memory due to its easy misinterpretation. In relation to identity, many people composed their own beliefs involving personal identity…

The objection takes the following form: P1: If Act Utilitarianism is true, we can never be certain whether our actions are morally permissible P2: If we can never be certain if our actions are morally permissible, then we can never feel justified in believing…

Marquis’s reply to the Potentiality Objection is that he doesn’t claim that the foetus has the potential to be a person but rather that it has the potential to be in a similar kind of state as a person in future. (Schmid, 2017) Another prominent objection to his FLO argument is the Contraception Objection this objection however tries to disprove his FLO argument by trying to show that it’s too absurd as it suggests that contraception…

In Chapter II of Utilitarianism Mill raises a variety of objections to the moral theory of utility or the Greatest Happiness Principle. In Mill’s observation people misinterpret utilitarianism as an oppression to pleasure. In reality, a utility is known as pleasure itself. The principle of utilitarianism holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness. In this principle happiness are the intended pleasure and the absence of pain. Pleasure and the absence of pain in…