The Case For Infanticide

[ConnorEl]

I’ve now read the article. I would congratulate the authors on their bold linguistic coherency and the clear logic of their moral postulations. And yet their arguments are rightly troubling to any with a sense of justice that endeavors to go beyond a version of “might makes right”. And I would argue that they’ve not carried in this paper their logic to its various conclusions. After all, when I sleep tonight I’ll become again nothing more than a potential person unable to “value the different situation would have found [myself] in if had not been harmed”. Etc.

Justice is nothing other than the advantage of the stronger…
-- Thrasymachus

Sleep well my friends. But know that while you sleep, you become again only a potential person…