Sunday, February 5, 2012

space-time-causality

Stephen Wan's Proposed Study about The Need for Consideration of Space-Time-Causality:

(1) Conception (why a foetus can be conceived)?

(a) Normally a possible outcome of sex intercourse, but sex intercourse can be a result of
-mutual consent bewteen wife and husband,
-mutual consent between a woman and a man without marital relation,
-rape and indecent assault,
-immature sex between a girl and a male and a female with a boy, or a girl and a boy intentionally or under confusion,

(b) accidental outcome even under normal sex intercourse with contraceptives and other precautions

(2) There are extreme views:

(a) NOT to consider any of the above causes, not to trace back why and how comes the foetus-
-let the pregnant mother decide, and nobody should stop her from saving or aborting the foetus. All decisions solely at her discretion with perhaps some medical advice only.
- or just the opposite, people try hard to list out virtue rules and universal principles or duties that no pregnant women should contravene, in other words, let society decide.

(b) MUST consider the above causes, and provide ethical criteria on basis of the various causes and then let society and the pregnant women to follow and comply with "reason" and "justification" in case by case method.

(3) There is also PRAGMATIC view:-
Whichever views above to be taken, priority is to consider the situation from the medical health perspective-
-physical health of both foetus and mother
-mental condition of the mother
-psychiatric consideration
-family and social welfare back-up and support --enough or not?

** No matter what, the "fate" or "status" of the foetus is actually worse than that of a tree or pet like a dog.
A tree or a pet dog can be loved or treasured for ecological, environmental protection or animal right reason, no matter how poor the economy or how poor the pet dog owner is. Therefore the BIG query remains: Why a valuable life in a foetus can be disposed like trash under abortion without the need for consideration of space-time-causality?

** A mentally sick man who likes to rape women can be jailed but not killed. He is definitely an enemy to all women, and a threat at any time. In so-called civilized society, he will never be castrated or imposed death penalty, and no one and no woman can claim that for self defence reason, we must kill him or castrate him. A foetus may irritate only the mother but never a threat and never an enemy at all to any other women and society.A living foetus is not a mentally sick man (even such a mentally sick man is protected in law under human right). Why can't a living foetus be protected for other sound reason if not human right? A dog is also not human, also no personhood but can be protected. A tree of lower consciousness is also protected. Why not a living foetus? Unless the pregnant mother is both physiologically and mentally sick, why a healthy woman should be allowed to get rid a life-- a future human life?

2 comments:

  1. The bodily integrity objection against the Violinist Analogy

    In violinist analogy, unplugging that caused a separation between the violinist and you. If we considering the “unplugging” was replaced by freeing yourself from the violinist by poisoning him or putting him through a powerful suction machine like a jet engine. Thomson’s violinist analogy might not simply separating themselves or cutting a cord that links victim to the violinist. So the methods are actually used for abortion might eventually affecting our decision. The most commonly used methods of abortion like suction curettage, dilation and evacuation, dilation and extraction or partial-birth abortion and induction, those methods killing the fetus by mangling or poisoning in order to remove it from the uterus. Based on consideration of administration method of abortion, the violinist analogy may fail to criticize under the situations of (1) direct intervention against the body of the fetal human, and (2) the death of the human being in uterus is directly caused by this intervention.

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  2. Reply from SWAN = Stephen Wan:

    Thanks, Patrick. I can further support and add more points below to reject Thomson's analogy:

    (1) We do not even need to emphasize on blood-ties or umbilical cords as links or intimate connections between two lives- mother and her baby (foetus).

    WE CAN SIMPLY ALL AGREE:

    Human relations in general can be and should be all more intimate and their separation should never be as simple as unplugging a device/ tube connection, if all people respect each other and treasure their lives together!

    (2) Thomson's attitude to all foetuses are hostile, that's obvious, because she takes them as THINGS only. And such THINGS to her are always ALIENS, and unwelcomed unless the pregnant women can pity them and let them stay in their wombs.

    (3) If we cannot accept her premise, there can be no common ground for discussion. That's it, so she has own right not to bear any baby, but she is directly and indirectly inciting other women not to bear babies should they feel inconvenient to do so under any circumstances or even without any reason whatsoever.

    (4) According to Thomson: Her body (including her foetus) belongs to her only. She is absolutely free to do anything she wants with her body. It appears to me terrible!

    Why?

    Because she can cut her finger out, cut her toe out, cut her arm, or she can destroy her body by committing suicide FREELY...

    Isn't it terrible in a Thomson's world?

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