Re: Cheating Destiny (book excerpt)
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Posted by klausen on 19:57:16 2006/07/12
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Re: Cheating Destiny (book excerpt) posted by rlruby
To return to the example I have used before, when Michael Jackson swung his child over the balcony of a Berlin hotel a few years ago, the whole world was outraged, not at the injury he did the child, for there was none, but at the RISK to which he exposed the child. The same point applies to your argument: imposing the risk of a potentially devastating case of diabetes on a child is already immoral, even if it turns out to be one of the luckier cases.
If I say I like vanilla better than chocolate, then I don't implicitly or explicitly require or expect that you should agree with my, for that is a truly personal, aesthetic choice. But if I say I don't approve of spouse beating, but my neighbor beats his wife, then, because that is not an aesthetic but a MORAL opinion, I don't want to allow him the freedom to do that. It should be no one's putative 'personal choice' to injure future human generations. If you don't think it's a matter of personal choice that you construct a time-bomb, set it to go off in 2230 A.D., and then walk away, saying "I'm not hurting anyone! I have no moral responsibility at all, becasue the people who will be torn to shreds by that bomb don't even exist yet!" then you are not making a merely personal choice.
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