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6 Cards in this Set
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Equality |
Equal consideration of interests provides an impartial 'base position' for arriving at moral decisions, avoids issues of partiality, specieism and power |
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Consistency |
Gives consistent method for judging ethical dilemmas eg disabled person getting to live |
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Radicalism |
Offers radical solution to world poverty, animal welfare and issues of human sexuality |
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Devaluing human life |
The 'commodification' of humans denied the inherent dignity that all humans even foetuses possess equally, makes big decisions s eg if the life of a disabled person and their conscious life and the worth of life |
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Inconsistencies |
Awards personhood status to foetus of 4 weeks. Seems inconsistent to award infants lesser stasis and apes higher status. Condemns himself even in form of specieism - the tyranny of the self conscious |
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Partiality |
We intuitively treat our own relatives differently, contrary to his equality principle, partial to moral choices towards those nearer to us |
