Sunday, April 29, 2012

Moral Behavior should be advancement or downgrading?


Philosopher always emphasized that only human has the moral issue. Human who has the following characters as defined as human. The fetus does not have the following characters, which means it does not category as human beings.   
(1)   " consciousness (of objects and events external and /or internal to the being), and in particular the capacity to feel pain;
(2)    reasoning (the developed capacity to solve new and relatively complex problems)
(3)    self-motivated activity (activity which is relatively independent of either genstic or direct external control);
(4)    the capacity to communicate, by what ever means,  messages of an indefinite variety of types, that is, not just with an indefinite number of possible contents, but on indefinitely man possible topics
(5)    the presence of self-concepts, and self awareness, either individual or racial, or both. "(By Mary Anne Warren)
  
 If human following these characters to define that fetus is not a human beings. It is kind of Anthropocentric, although fetus has the potentials to become the human beings.

 As human are chasing for the higher moral rather than lower. If a person who does something really bad, for example, killing the people crucially, people would say that this guy acts like an animal. Why he did like that? Even though, people kill an ordinary dog, it will be disliked by other people in the modern society. As the moral keeps going to chase for the better not worse, this kind of activity would treat as bad behavior. Human is chasing for the higher moral, the fetus is chasing for the becoming the completed physical body. If human is advancement, the concept of moral is higher. In the meanwhile, killing the fetus in order to personal reason, this activity is morally downgrading.