Teed Rockwell
Aug 3, 2022

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This is basically a subgenus of Aristotle’s distinction between present-in and not present-in. Like most of Aristotle’s distinctions, it seems very intuitive and straightforward until you try to think about it more precisely. Here are some of the problems with trying to apply it to the comparison between abortion and kidney donation.

https://teedrockwell.medium.com/objection-to-jarvis-thomson-1-this-situation-is-so-weird-that-it-tell-us-nothing-about-how-people-806068c222d8

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Teed Rockwell
Teed Rockwell

Written by Teed Rockwell

I am White Anglo-Saxon Protestant Male Heterosexual cisgendered over-educated able-bodied affluent and thin. Hope to learn from those living on the margins.

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