re: #216 Nimed

A pleasure to see the violinist argument here, though I don’t like it very much. I think a reasonable argument can be made that you should be forced to save the violinist life in such circumstances.

(note that I’m pro-choice, but for a bunch of other reasons mainly concerning the personhood of the fetus)

Yeah. The violinist argument is Thomson basically making the strongest possible wingnut case (let’s grant the fetus personhood)— and we can still show that abortion is justified.

It’s excellent for that, but in reality there is zero reason to endow a fetus with the status of a person. Nor should we.