I Have Something to Say
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If I pick up a baby, can I claim "bodily autonomy" (that no one can use or continue to use my body without my consent) and simply drop the baby?
No, of course not- primarily because of the *principle of precondition*. Let's explain this principle, briefly.
If I used my body to pick up a baby (precondition), thus making someone else's body (the baby) dependent upon mine, I hold an obligation and responsibility to use my body to deliver the person safely elswhere.
Take a pilot, for example. If a pilot uses his body to take off an airplane holding civilian passengers (precondition), he holds a binding responsibility and obligation to continue using his body to safely land the plane and deliver the passengers. He cannot "abort" midflight, claiming bodily autonomy and jump ship.
This principle is also at work in the case of *pregnancy*- and thus destroys the futile argument of bodily autonomy in relation to abortion. If a woman uses her body to create a baby (another person's body), thus making the child dependent upon her body, she holds a binding responsibility to deliver the baby safely elswhere.
She cannot, at any time, chop up the baby for being in a position that they *did not put themself in*. By this principle, we cannot (intentionally or not) put people in undesirable positions and then kill them for being there. Such a claim is ultimately absurd and ethically fallacious.
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If I pick up a baby, can I claim "bodily autonomy" (that no one can use or continue to use my body without my consent) and simply drop the baby?
No, of course not- primarily because of the *principle of precondition*. Let's explain this principle, briefly.
If I used my body to pick up a baby (precondition), thus making someone else's body (the baby) dependent upon mine, I hold an obligation and responsibility to use my body to deliver the person safely elswhere.
Take a pilot, for example. If a pilot uses his body to take off an airplane holding civilian passengers (precondition), he holds a binding responsibility and obligation to continue using his body to safely land the plane and deliver the passengers. He cannot "abort" midflight, claiming bodily autonomy and jump ship.
This principle is also at work in the case of *pregnancy*- and thus destroys the futile argument of bodily autonomy in relation to abortion. If a woman uses her body to create a baby (another person's body), thus making the child dependent upon her body, she holds a binding responsibility to deliver the baby safely elswhere.
She cannot, at any time, chop up the baby for being in a position that they *did not put themself in*. By this principle, we cannot (intentionally or not) put people in undesirable positions and then kill them for being there. Such a claim is ultimately absurd and ethically fallacious.
