Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

In reply to mlyoung57. “A fair bit of COVID research depended on animal model experimentation…” https://www.nature.com/articles/s41592-022-01447-w#:~:text=Conclusion,of%20therapeutic%20agents%20and%20vaccines. I understand that there&…

In reply to mlyoung57. I don’t want to drag this out too much, but I don’t see any plausibility in the idea that a woman has any obligation whatsoever to bring a fetus to term unless she decides, after due reflection, that it’s all th…

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. A capsule summary of the film (ht: Debbie Peikes): https://www.tapinto.net/towns/princeton/sections/spotlight-on-princeton/articles/princeton-parents-share-their-story-finding-the-best-school-for-their-child-with-autism That …

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. Initially, I had in mind gross abuse of animals being properly illegal (as well as immoral, something we are obligated not to do). These laws seem fine to me, but what is needed, to get an adequate analogy, would be laws agai…

In reply to Roderick T. Long. You are right that this is a disanalogy between the two cases of custodial obligation (if this is what you are getting at in your brief comment). However, I don’t see why custodial obligations could not extend to being obl…

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. Last point for now. Am I exaggerating the effect of Dobbs, and of post-Dobbs anti-abortion legislation? I don’t think so. On this point, I’ll just cite some references without making an attempt, item by item, to …

In reply to Michael Brazier. (Responding to Michael Brazier) As for the constitutionality of a federal law on abortion, I would say this: The Constitution’s “general welfare” clause should be read as giving Congress the power to prote…

In reply to mlyoung57. What’s wrong with any of these columns by Michelle Goldberg? She’s written five columns for the NYT on abortion since Dobbs (four below, one I cited earlier). Everyone of them seems on target to me. I don’t …